Mutation pressure, natural selection, and the evolution of base composition in Drosophila

Genetica

Volumn 102-103, Issue , 1998, Pages 49-60

  Akashi, Hiroshi ^a   Kliman, Richard M ^b   Eyre Walker, Adam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base composition; Codon bias; Molecular evolution; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE SEQUENCING; INTRON; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 7344242178     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5210-5_5     Document Type: Article

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