Insertion/deletion and nucleotide polymorphism data reveal constraints in Drosophila melanogaster introns and intergenic regions

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1521-1527

  Ometto, Lino ^a   Stephan, Wolfgang ^a   De Lorenzo, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 17444402039     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.037689     Document Type: Article

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