Positive correlation between evolutionary rate and recombination rate in Drosophila genes with male-biased expression

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1945-1947

  Zhang, Zhi ^a   Parsch, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Hill Robertson interference; Sex biased genes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME;

EID: 24744453961     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi189     Document Type: Article

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