Genetic recombination and molecular evolution

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2009, Pages 177-186

  Charlesworth, B ^a   Betancourt, A J ^a   Kaiser, V B ^a   Gordo, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CHROMOSOME; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA AMERICANA; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ARTICLE; BACKGROUND SELECTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIATION; INSECT CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROSSING OVER; GENETICS; MUTATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, INSECT; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77957744647     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2009.74.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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