Waiting for two mutations: With applications to regulatory sequence evolution and the limits of Darwinian evolution

Genetics

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1501-1509

  Durrett, Rick ^a   Schmidt, Deena ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 59449102701     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.082610     Document Type: Article

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