Molecular evolution in the Drosophila melanogaster species subgroup: Frequent parameter fluctuations on the timescale of molecular divergence

Genetics

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1711-1726

  Akashi, Hiroshi ^a   Ko, Wen Ya ^a   Piao, Shengfu ^a   John, Anoop ^a   Goel, Piyush ^a   Lin, Chiao Feng ^a   Vitins, Alexa P ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENT GENE; STEADY STATE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER SUBGROUP;

EID: 33645213545     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.049676     Document Type: Article

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