Uncovering the mutation-fixation correlation in short lineages

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Vallender, Eric J ^a,b   Lahn, Bruce T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPECIES; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOG; GENETICS; MACACA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

MAMMALIA; PAN;

ANIMALS; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 36048932967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-168     Document Type: Article

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