Rapid Sequence Turnover at an Intergenic Locus in Drosophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 670-680

  Singh, Nadia D ^a   Petrov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deletions; DNAREPI_DM; Genome evolution; Insertions; Intergenic; Numl

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; GENE LOSS; GENOME SIZE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MELANOGASTER; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 1842452864     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh060     Document Type: Article

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