Rampant adaptive evolution in regions of proteins with unknown function in Drosophila simulans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Holloway, Alisha K ^a   Begun, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

DROSOPHILA SIMULANS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 42549171437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001113     Document Type: Article

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