Temporal trails of natural selection in human mitogenomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 715-717

  Subramanian, Sankar ^a,b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coalescence time and the neutral theory; Deleterious mutations; Haplogroups; Human evolution; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

PAN;

EID: 62349125924     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp005     Document Type: Article

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