Rates of nucleotide substitution in primates and rodents and the generation-time effect hypothesis

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 182-187

  Li, Wen Hsung ^a   Ellsworth, Darrell L ^a   Krushkal, Julia ^a   Chang, Benny H J ^a   Hewett Emmett, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERCOPITHECIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

DNA; GLOBIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOMINID; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MUTATION; PRIMATE; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; RODENT; SEX CHROMOSOME; TIME;

ANIMALS; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GLOBINS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PRIMATES; PSEUDOGENES; RATS; RODENTIA; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030076124     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0012     Document Type: Article

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