Transposable elements in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1544, 2010, Pages 1219-1228

  Lee, Yuh Chwen G ^a   Langley, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ectopic exchange; Epistasis; Natural selection; Pirna; Rna interference

Indexed keywords

DNA; EPISTASIS; FITNESS; FLY; GENOME; HETEROGENEITY; HOST; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS; RNA;

GERMANY; PIRNA; SAXONY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 77951562146     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0318     Document Type: Review

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