Nonallelic gene conversion Is Not GC-biased in drosophila or primates

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1291-1295

  Assis, Raquel ^a   Kondrashov, Alexey S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

GC bias; Gene conversion; Gene duplication

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; DATABASES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOMICS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84862899535     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr304     Document Type: Article

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