Molecular clock: An anti-neo-Darwinian legacy

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-6

  Takahata, Naoyuki ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 34548575130     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.75135     Document Type: Review

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