The correlation between recombination rate and dinucleotide bias in Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 358-367

  Liu, Guoqing ^a   Li, Hong ^a  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dinucleotide bias; GC content; Hill Robertson interference; Neighbor dependent mutational bias; Recombination rate; Selection

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INSECT GENETICS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC VARIATION; NUCLEOTIDES; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 54349116698     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-008-9150-0     Document Type: Article

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