Interactions between natural selection, recombination and gene density in the genes of Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 595-608

  Hey, Jody ^a,c   Kliman, Richard M ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; LINKAGE (GENETICS); RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036188913     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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