The genomic rate of adaptive amino acid substitution in Drosophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1350-1360

  Bierne, Nicolas ^a,b   Eyre Walker, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Amino acid substitutions; Drosophila; McDonald Kreitman test

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CODON; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CODON; DROSOPHILA; GENES, INSECT; GENOMICS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 3042544623     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh134     Document Type: Article

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