Nucleotide variation at the dopa decarboxylase (Ddc) gene in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 125-137

  Tatarenkov, Andrey ^a   Ayala, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hitchhiking; Linkage disequilibrium; Selection; Tests of neutrality

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 35548956468     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: 00221333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12041-007-0017-8     Document Type: Article

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