Estimating selection intensity on synonymous codon usage in a nonequilibrium population

Genetics

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 651-662

  Zeng, Kai ^a,b   Charlesworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; CODON USAGE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZIMBABWE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 70649090279     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.101782     Document Type: Article

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