Patterns of polymorphism and divergence from noncoding sequences of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans: Evidence for nonequilibrium processes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-62

  Kern, Andrew D ^a   Begun, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Base composition; Divergence; Drosophila; Introns; Noncoding DNA; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; EXON; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; INTRONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 10344256696     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh269     Document Type: Article

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