Evidence that natural selection on codon usage in Drosophila pseudoobscura varies across codons

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 681-692

  Kliman, Richard M ^a  

^a CEDAR CREST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Drosophila pseudoobscura; Natural selection; Recombination; Site frequency spectrum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2; CODON; CODON USAGE; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; STOP CODON;

EID: 84898923226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.010488     Document Type: Article

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