Contrasting selection pressures on components of the Ras-mediated signal transduction pathway in Drosophila

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1315-1323

  Riley, Rebecca M ^a   Jin, Wei ^a,b   Gibson, Greg ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Vector Tobacco Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Corkscrew; Drk; Drosophila melanogaster; Dsor1; HKA test; Ksr; Nucleotide polymorphism; Pole hole

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0038075568     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.01741.x     Document Type: Article

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