Recent relaxation of purifying selection on the tandem-repetitive early-stage histone H3 gene in brooding sea stars

Marine Genomics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-118

  Foltz, David W ^a   Mah, Christopher L ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Echinoderms; Forcipulatida; Larval habitat; Multigene family; Nonsynonymous substitutions; Sea stars

Indexed keywords

ASTEROIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; FORCIPULATIDA;

EID: 70049113796     PISSN: 18747787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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