Selective Constraints on Intron Evolution in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1843-1851

  Parsch, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC DRIFT; INTRON; MOLECULAR SIZE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; INTRONS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER SUBGROUP; OCNUS;

EID: 0347361692     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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