Relative Rates of Nucleotide Substitution in Frogs

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 636-641

  Crawford, Andrew J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c Unit 0948   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; c myc; Mitochondrial; ND2; Nuclear DNA; Substitution rate; Synonymous sites

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SINGLE COPY NUCLEAR DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CELL LINEAGE; CODON USAGE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA DETERMINATION; FROG; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; LIFE HISTORY; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; ND2 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C MYC; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNONYMOUS SUBSTITUTION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0141695079     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2513-7     Document Type: Article

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