Purifying selection maintains highly conserved noncoding sequences in Drosophila.

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Published in Mol Biol Evol on July 23, 2007

Authors

Sònia Casillas1, Antonio Barbadilla, Casey M Bergman

Author Affiliations

1: Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.

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