Ribosomal intergenic spacer (IGS) length variation across the Drosophilinae (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Mateos, Mariana ^a   Markow, Therese A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILIDAE; DROSOPHILINAE; EUKARYOTA;

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DIPTERA; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 25444501533     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-46     Document Type: Article

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