Looking for Darwin in all the wrong places: The misguided quest for positive selection at the nucleotide sequence level

Heredity

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 364-373

  Hughes, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nearly neutral theory; Nucleotide substitution; Positive selection

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

GENE EXPRESSION; PATHOGEN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; SELECTION;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34748817463     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6801031     Document Type: Review

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