Correlates of substitution rate variation in mammalian protein-coding sequences

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Welch, John J ^a,b   Bininda Emonds, Olaf R P ^c   Bromham, Lindell ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; FERTILITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFESPAN; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SUBSTITUTION LINE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; MAMMALS; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 41949132520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-53     Document Type: Article

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