Stabilizing selection of protein function and distribution of selection coefficient among sites

Genetica

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-97

  Gu, Xun ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Evolutionary rate; Nearly neutral model; Stabilizing selection; Variation of selection coefficient

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 34147176128     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-006-0022-5     Document Type: Article

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