Substitution rate variation in closely related rodent species

Heredity

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-31

  Fieldhouse, Dan ^a   Yazdani, Fariborz ^a   Golding, G Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

APRT; B1 B2 elements; phylogeny; rate variation; relative rate test; rodent

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031019779     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1997.3     Document Type: Article

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