Unexpectedly similar rates of nucleotide substitution found in male and female hominids

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6796, 2000, Pages 622-625

  Bohosslan, Hacho B ^a   Skaletsky, Helen ^a   Page, David C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GORILLA; HOMINID; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; Y CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034632812     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35020557     Document Type: Article

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