Extent of gene duplication in the genomes of Drosophila, nematode, and yeast

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 256-262

  Gu, Zhenglong ^a   Cavalcanti, Andre ^a   Chen, Feng Chi ^a   Bouman, Peter ^a   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon usage bias; Database cleaning; Gene duplication rate; Gene families

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DATA BASE; DROSOPHILA; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036187351     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004079     Document Type: Article

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