The chorion genes of the medfly. II. DNA sequence evolution of the autosomal chorion genes s18, s15, s19 and s16 in Diptera

Gene

Volumn 270, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 41-52

  Vlachou, Dina ^a   Komitopoulou, Katia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Conserved regulatory elements; Divergence; Gene amplification; Intergenic sequences

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHORION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLY; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIPTERA; DNA; EGG PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0035972903     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00482-6     Document Type: Article

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