Rate of sequence divergence under constant selection

Biology Direct

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kondrashov, Alexey S ^a   Povolotskaya, Inna S ^b   Ivankov, Dmitry N ^b,c   Kondrashov, Fyodor A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77649279189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-5-5     Document Type: Article

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