Patterns of evolutionary constraints in intronic and intergenic DNA of Drosophila

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 273-279

  Halligan, Daniel L ^a   Eyre Walker, Adam ^b   Andolfatto, Peter ^a,c   Keightley, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOME; INTRON; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; INTRONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 1242296827     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1329204     Document Type: Article

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