The control region is the only major non-coding region in the mitochondrial genome of
insects. It is heavily biased to A+ T nucleotides and seems to evolve under a strong …

Population‐genetic studies have been remarkably productive and successful in the last
decade following the invention of PCR technology and the introduction of mitochondrial and …

The study of evolution at the molecular level has given the subject of evolutionary biology a
new significance. Phylogenetic'trees' of gene sequences are a powerful tool for recovering …

The genetic code uses 64 codons to represent the 20 standard amino acids and the
translation termination signal. Each codon is recognised by a subset of a cell's transfer …

The phylogenetic relationship of the now fully sequenced species Drosophila erecta and D.
yakuba with respect to the D. melanogaster species complex has been a subject of …

The origin of new genes includes both the initial molecular events and subsequent
population dynamics. A processed Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) gene …

Codon usage bias of 1,117 Drosophila melanogaster genes, as well as fewer D.
pseudoobscura and D. virilis genes, was examined from the perspective of relative …

We performed molecular phylogenetic analyses of glutamine synthetase (GS) genes in
order to investigate their evolutionary history. The analyses were done on 30 DNA …

The rates and patterns of evolution at silent sites in codons reveal much about the basic
features of molecular evolution. Recent increases in the amount of sequence data available …

The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of the ribosomal DNA is generally considered to be
under low functional constraint, and it is therefore often treated as a typical nonfunctional …