The rates of molecular evolution in rodent and primate mitochondrial DNA

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 40-50

  Weinreich, Daniel M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; Mammals; Maximum likelihood; Mildly deleterious theory; Mitochondrial; Molecular clock; Neutral theory

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALBUMIN; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYTOCHROME B; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; FIBRINOGEN; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; HEXOKINASE; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7; LACTOFERRIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NEUROLEUKIN; NEUROPHYSIN; PROLACTIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); THROMBOMODULIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; UROKINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; RODENT;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0035144026     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010132     Document Type: Article

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