High incidence of interchromosomal transpositions in the evolutionary history of a subset of Or genes in Drosophila

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 325-332

  Conceição, Inês C ^a   Aguadé, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gene transposition; Genome evolution; Olfaction; Olfactory receptor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OR GENE; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 43149115602     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-008-9071-y     Document Type: Article

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