Article
Synonymous rates at the RpII215 gene of Drosophila: variation among species and across the coding region.
Genetics - 1 May 1999
Llopart A, Aguadé M
Abstract excerpt
The region encompassing the RpII215 gene that encodes the largest component of the RNA polymerase II complex (1889 amino acids) has been sequenced in Drosophila subobscura, D. madeirensis, D. guanche, and D. pseudoobscura. Nonsynonymous divergence estimates (Ka) indicate that this gene has a very low rate of amino acid replacements. Given its low Ka and constitutive expression, synonymous substitution rates are,...
Topics
- Animals
- Cloning, Molecular
- Codon
- Drosophila
- Evolution, Molecular
- Models, Genetic
- Models, Statistical
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- RNA Polymerase II
- Sequence Analysis, DNA