Mutation and evolution of microsatellites in Drosophila melanogaster.

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Mutation and evolution of microsatellites in Drosophila melanogaster.

Genetica - 1 Jan 1998

Schug M D, Hutter C M, Noor M A, Aquadro C F

Abstract excerpt

Levels of nucleotide polymorphism in the Drosophila melanogaster genome are correlated with rates of recombination. This relationship may be due to hitchhiking of advantageous mutations (selective sweeps) or to continual removal of deleterious mutations from the genome (background selection). One...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Base Sequence
Drosophila
Drosophila melanogaster
Evolution, Molecular
Genetic Variation
Microsatellite Repeats
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Polymorphism, Genetic
Recombination, Genetic
Sequence Alignment
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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