Expected rates and modes of evolution of enhancer sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1064-1073

  MacArthur, Stewart ^a   Brookfield, John F Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Enhancers; Evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CALCULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECOLOGY; ENHANCER REGION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION SIZE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TARGET CELL; TIME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE COMPOSITION; BINDING SITES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 2442701487     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh105     Document Type: Article

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