Mismatch repair-driven mutational bias in D. melanogaster

Molecular Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 199-205

  Harr, Bettina ^a,b   Todorova, Jordana ^a   Schlötterer, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036348185     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(02)00575-0     Document Type: Article

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