Reply to: Mutation rate variation in eukaryotes: Evolutionary implications of site-specific mechanisms [3]

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Baer, Charles F ^a   Miyamoto, Michael M ^a   Denver, Dee R ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

DNA REPLICATION; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 35348996021     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2158-c2     Document Type: Letter

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