The pattern of nucleotide difference at individual codons among mouse, rat, and human

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1285-1289

  Friedman, Robert ^a   Hughes, Austin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nucleotide substitution; Positive selection; Purifying selection

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICE; NUCLEOTIDES; RATS;

EID: 17744389604     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi113     Document Type: Article

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