The proteins of linked genes evolve at similar rates

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6806, 2000, Pages 900-903

  Williams, Elizabeth J B ^a   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEINS; RATS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0034687371     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35038066     Document Type: Article

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