Testing the neutral theory of molecular evolution with genomic data from Drosophila

Nature

Volumn 415, Issue 6875, 2002, Pages 1024-1026

  Fay, Justin C ^a   Wyckoff, Gerald J ^a   Wu, Chung I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROTEINS;

POLYMORPHISM;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

DNA; MUTANT PROTEIN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; GENE; POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037186608     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/4151024a     Document Type: Article

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