How intron splicing affects the deletion and insertion profile in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1233-1244

  Ptak, Susan E ^a,b   Petrov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INTRONS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0036862056     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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