The molecular clock runs at different rates among closely related members of a gene family

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 552-561

  Gibbs, Peter E M ^a   Witke, Werner F ^a   Dugaiczyk, Achilles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Albumin fetoprotein albumin vitamin D binding protein; Evolutionary tree; Gene duplication; Sequence divergence

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; VITAMIN D BINDING PROTEIN;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE;

ALBUMINS; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SERUM ALBUMIN; TIME FACTORS; VITAMIN D-BINDING PROTEIN;

EID: 0031901531     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006336     Document Type: Article

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