On the utility of short intron sequences as a reference for the detection of positive and negative selection in drosophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1226-1234

  Parsch, John ^a   Novozhilov, Sergey ^a   Saminadin Peter, Sarah S ^a   Wong, Karen M ^b   Andolfatto, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Intron evolution; Population genetics; Positive selection; Selective constraint

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDEL MUTATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; INDEL MUTATION; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 77952800173     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq046     Document Type: Article

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