Intron Size Correlates Positively with Recombination Rate in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1585-1590

  Prachumwat, Anuphap ^a   DeVincentis, Laura ^a   Palopoli, Michael F ^a  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; NATURAL SELECTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOMES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; INTRONS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); STATISTICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; NEMATODA;

EID: 1942485873     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.3.1585     Document Type: Article

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