Intronic at skew is a defendable proxy for germline transcription but does not predict crossing-over or protein evolution rates in drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 71, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 415-426

  Weber, Claudia C ^a   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Germline expression; Intronic AT skew; Nucleotide asymmetry; Recombination; Somatic gene expression; Tissue specificity

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GERM CELL; INTRON; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GERM CELLS; INTRONS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 78649985493     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-010-9395-2     Document Type: Article

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