Evolutionary expressed sequence tag analysis of Drosophila female reproductive tracts identifies genes subjected to positive selection.

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Published in Genetics on November 01, 2004

Authors

Willie J Swanson1, Alex Wong, Mariana F Wolfner, Charles F Aquadro

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1: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-7730, USA. wswanson@gs.washington.edu

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