Complex interplay of evolutionary forces in the ladybird homeobox genes of Drosophila melanogaster

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Balakirev, Evgeniy S ^a,b   Anisimova, Maria ^c,d   Ayala, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LADYBIRD EARLY PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; LADYBIRD LATE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BALANCING SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; LADYBIRD EARLY GENE; LADYBIRD LATE GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RNA STABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; HAPLOTYPES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79960672524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022613     Document Type: Article

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