The repatterning of eukaryotic genomes by random genetic drift

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages 347-366

  Lynch, Michael ^a   Bobay, Louis Marie ^b   Catania, Francesco ^c   Gout, Jean François ^a   Rho, Mina ^d  

^a Department of Biology ^*  (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Genome evolution; Mutation; Protein evolution; Recombination

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ALLOSTERISM; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL DIVISION; DAPHNIA; DINOSAUR; DIPLOIDY; DNA MODIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; FAMILY SIZE; GAMETE; GENE CONTROL; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE POOL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; HAPLOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IN VITRO STUDY; INBREEDING; INTRON; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MAMMAL; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MATING; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OLIGOMERIZATION; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; POPULATION SIZE; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOGENE; RANDOM SAMPLE; RETROPOSON; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX RATIO; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 80052770972     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: 1545293X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-082410-101412     Document Type: Article

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