Population frequencies of transposable elements in selfing and outcrossing Caenorhabditis nematodes

Genetics Research

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 317-329

  Dolgin, Elie S ^a   Charlesworth, Brian ^a   Cutter, Asher D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; HOST; INVERTED REPEAT; NATURAL POPULATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OUTCROSSING; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDICTION; SELFING; THEORY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; NEMATODA;

EID: 53949108065     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672308009440     Document Type: Article

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