The evolutionary rate of tuatara revisited

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-15

  Miller, Hilary C ^a   Moore, Jennifer A ^a   Allendorf, Fred W ^a,b   Daugherty, Charles H ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEW ZEALAND; TIME FACTORS;

SPHENODON PUNCTATUS;

EID: 58149359174     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2008.09.007     Document Type: Letter

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