Intragenic Hill-Robertson interference influences selection intensity on synonymous mutations in Drosophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2519-2530

  Comeron, Josep M ^a   Guthrie, Theodore B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Gene conversion bias; Gene structure; Interference selection; Weak selection

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CODON; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HETEROZYGOTE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 27844577664     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi246     Document Type: Article

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