Effect of Strong Directional Selection on Weakly Selected Mutations at Linked Sites: Implication for Synonymous Codon Usage

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 286-294

  Kim, Yuseob ^a,b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Drosophila; Hitchhiking; Interference; Linkage

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CODON; DROSOPHILA; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOSITY; MODEL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; THEORY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CODON; DROSOPHILA; GENES, INSECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 1542286766     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh020     Document Type: Article

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