Temporal Patterns of Fruit Fly (Drosophila) Evolution Revealed by Mutation Clocks

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-44

  Tamura, Koichiro ^a,b   Subramanian, Sankar ^a   Kumar, Sudhir ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Evolutionary distance estimation; Molecular clock; Molecular evolution; Mutation rate; Speciation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CODON; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION;

ANANASSAE SUBGROUP; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA ERECTA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA ORENA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA TAKAHASHII; DROSOPHILA TEISSIERI; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; MONTIUM SUBGROUP; OBSCURA GROUP; TAKAHASHII SUBGROUP; WILLISTONI GROUP;

EID: 1242352089     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg236     Document Type: Article

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