So, what about the molecular clock hypothesis?

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 896-901

  Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CELL DIVISION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAMMAL; METABOLIC RATE; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RODENT; SEA URCHIN; SHARK; TURTLE;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

CHONDRICHTHYES; ECHINOIDEA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0027759230     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0959-437X(93)90011-D     Document Type: Article

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