Chimeric genes as a source of rapid evolution in Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 517-529

  Rogers, Rebekah L ^a,b   Hartl, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive evolution; chimeric genes; Drosophila melanogaster; duplicate genes; evolutionary novelty; regulatory evolution

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; DNA; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MUTANT CHIMERIC PROTEINS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84855870527     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr184     Document Type: Article

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