High Diversity Due to Balancing Selection in the Promoter Region of the Medea Gene in Arabidopsis lyrata

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 1885-1889

  Kawabe, Akira ^a,b   Fujimoto, Ryo ^b   Charlesworth, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MEA PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

5' FLANKING REGION; ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 35549011073     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.09.051     Document Type: Article

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