Evolution: What determines the rate of sequence evolution?

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2000, Pages

  Brookfield, J F Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME;

EID: 0034204479     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00506-6     Document Type: Review

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