Evidence that positive selection drives Y-chromosome degeneration in Drosophila miranda

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 518-522

  Bachtrog, Doris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEGENERATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MIRANDA; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MALE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MIRANDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 2442628547     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1347     Document Type: Article

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