Molecular clocks: Four decades of evolution

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 654-662

  Kumar, Sudhir ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C PEPTIDE; CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CYTOCHROME C; DNA; FIBRINOPEPTIDE A; FIBRINOPEPTIDE B; HEMOGLOBIN; INSULIN; MYOGLOBIN;

CHI SQUARE TEST; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PROTEINS;

EID: 22944437097     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1659     Document Type: Review

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