Selective constraints on intron evolution in Drosophila.

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Published in Genetics on December 01, 2003

Authors

John Parsch1

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1: Department of Biology II, Section of Evolutionary Biology, University of Munich (LMU), Munich 80333, Germany. parsch@zi.biologie.uni-muenchen.de

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