Hill-Robertson interference in Drosophila melanogaster: Reply to Marais, Mouchiroud and Duret

Genetical Research

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 89-90

  Kliman, Richard M ^a   Hey, Jody ^b  

^a CEDAR CREST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037986699     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672302006067     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Birdsell, J. A. (2002). Integrating genomics, bioinformatics, and classical genetics to study the effects of recombination on genome evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19, 1181-1197.
2. Eyre-Walker, A. (1993). Recombination and mammalian genome evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 252, 237-243.
3. Felsenstein, J. (1974). The evolutionary advantage of recombination. Genetics 78, 737-756.
4. Hey, J. & Kliman, R. M. (2002). Interactions between natural selection, recombination and gene density in the genes of Drosophila. Genetics 160, 595-608.
5. Hill, W. G. & Robertson, A. (1966). The effect of linkage on limits to artificial selection. Genetical Research 8, 269-294.
6. Marais, G., Mouchiroud, D. & Duret, L. (2001). Does recombination improve selection on codon usage? Lessons from nematode and fly complete genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 98, 5688-5692.
7. Marais, G. & Piganeau, G. (2002). Hill-Robertson interference is a minor determinant of variations in codon bias across Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19, 1399-1406.
8. Marais, G., Mouchiroud, D. & Duret, L. (2003). Neutral effect of recombination on base composition in Drosophila. Genetical Research 81, 79-87.