A strong deletion bias in nonallelic gene conversion

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Assis, Raquel ^a   Kondrashov, Alexey S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINE; GENOME SIZE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME; INDEL MUTATION; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE INVERSION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84859199022     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002508     Document Type: Article

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