Nuclear copies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have contaminated PCR-based
mitochondrial studies of over 64 different animal species. Since the last review of these …

▪ Abstract Insect molecular systematics has undergone remarkable recent growth. Advances
in methods of data generation and analysis have led to the accumulation of large amounts of …

I present evidence that natural selection biases synonymous codon usage to enhance the
accuracy of protein synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Since the fitness cost of a …

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 …

This report of independent genome sequences of two natural populations of Drosophila
melanogaster (37 from North America and 6 from Africa) provides unique insight into forces …

We conducted a detailed analysis of duplicate genes in three complete genomes: yeast,
Drosophila, and Caenorhabditis elegans. For two proteins belonging to the same family we …

Drosophila melanogaster has been a canonical model organism to study genetics,
development, behavior, physiology, evolution, and population genetics for nearly a century …

Patterns of codon usage and" silent" DNA divergence suggest that natural selection
discriminates among synonymous codons in Drosophila." Preferred" codons are consistently …

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 …