Variable strength of translational selection among 12 Drosophila species

Genetics

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1337-1348

  Heger, Andreas ^a   Ponting, Chris P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; CODON USAGE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SPECIES;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, INSECT; INTRONS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 37249045872     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.070466     Document Type: Article

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