Population genetics of duplicated alternatively spliced exons of the Dscam gene in Daphnia and Drosophila

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Brites, Daniela ^a   Encinas Viso, Francisco ^b   Ebert, Dieter ^a   Pasquier, Louis ^a   Haag, Christoph R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GENOMIC DNA; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; DSCAM PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BALANCING SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; DOWN SYNDROME CELL ADHESION MOLECULE GENE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NON SYNONYMOUS POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; DAPHNIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPITOPES; EXONS; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, INSECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 83155167544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027947     Document Type: Article

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