Causes and evolutionary significance of genetic convergence

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 400-405

  Christin, Pascal Antoine ^a   Weinreich, Daniel M ^a   Besnard, Guillaume ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77955846669     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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