Strong Purifying Selection at Synonymous Sites in D. melanogaster

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Lawrie, David S ^a   Messer, Philipp W ^a   Hershberg, Ruth ^a,b   Petrov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PURIFYING SELECTION; RNA SPLICING; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84878486976     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003527     Document Type: Article

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