Natural selection drives Drosophila immune system evolution

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1471-1480

  Schlenke, Todd A ^a   Begun, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CODON; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, INSECT; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0041317004     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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