Population genetic analysis of weak selection in the Drosophila subobscura species complex

Until relatively recently, synonymous codons have been thought to be under very little evolutionary constraint. That has changed, and now codon bias (the preferential use of a subset of synonymous codons for each degenerate amino acid) is being observed in nearly every organism in which it is adequa...

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Main Author: Peters, Derek Ernest
Other Authors: Comeron, Josep M.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2011
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2757
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2737&context=etd