Are Radical and Conservative Substitution Rates Useful Statistics in Molecular Evolution?

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 467-478

  Smith, Nick G C ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Conservative radical amino acid mutations; Deleterious mutations; Nearly neutral theory; Substitution rate estimation; Transition transversion bias

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0142075815     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2500-z     Document Type: Article

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