Recombination rates may affect the ratio of X to autosomal noncoding polymorphism in African populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1699-1701

  Vicoso, Beatriz ^a   Charlesworth, Brian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Evolutionary Biology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AUTOSOME; CYTOGENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCUS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MALE; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; STOP CODON;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CODON, NONSENSE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 66449101665     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.098004     Document Type: Letter

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