Monitoring the mode and tempo of concerted evolution in the Drosophila melanogaster rDNA locus

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1837-1846

  Averbeck, Karin Tetzlaff ^a   Eickbush, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA GENE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; RETROELEMENTS; X CHROMOSOME;

ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33645113551     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.047670     Document Type: Article

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