Correlated evolution of synonymous and nonsynonymous sites in Drosophila

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 771-779

  Marais, Gabriel ^a   Domazet Lošo, Tomislav ^b,c   Tautz, Diethard ^b   Charlesworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Drosophila; Recombination; Substitution rate

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; POINT MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 11944249127     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-2671-2     Document Type: Article

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