The rate of DNA evolution: Effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clock

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 140-145

  Gillooly, James F ^a   Allen, Andrew P ^a   West, Geoffrey B ^b,c   Brown, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Metabolic theory; Mutation; Substitution

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; METABOLIC RATE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION;

ACARI;

EID: 11844288987     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0407735101     Document Type: Article

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