Average allozyme heterozygosity in vertebrates correlates with Ka/Ks measured in the human-mouse lineage

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1753-1759

  Skibinski, David O F ^a   Ward, Robert D ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allozyme; Constraint; Heterozygosity; Ka; Ks; Substitution

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ADENYLATE KINASE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALLOENZYME; AMYLASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CATALASE; CREATINE KINASE; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; DNA; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HEXOKINASE; IDITOL DEHYDROGENASE; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (NADP); PHOSPHOGLUCONATE DEHYDROGENASE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHORYLASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; XANTHINE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); VERTEBRATES;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4143067905     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh193     Document Type: Article

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