Mutational Equilibrium Model of Genome Size Evolution

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 531-544

  Petrov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome size; Insertions, junk DNA; Mutational bias, deletions

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENOME;

ANIMALIA;

DNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0345070506     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2002.1605     Document Type: Article

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