Switch in codon bias and increased rates of amino acid substitution in the Drosophila saltans species group

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 339-350

  Rodríguez Trelles, Francisco ^a   Tarrío, Rosa ^a   Ayala, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; INTRONS; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 0037560021     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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