Contrasting patterns of sequence divergence and base composition between Drosophila introns and intergenic regions

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 604-607

  Ometto, Lino ^a,b   De Lorenzo, David ^a   Stephan, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drosophila; GC content; Non coding DNA; Selection

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; SPACER DNA;

DIVERGENCE; DNA; FLY; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; RECOMBINATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33845597141     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0521     Document Type: Article

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