Effective population size and the rate and pattern of nucleotide substitutions

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 417-420

  Woolfit, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Molecular evolution; Substitution rate

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

GENETICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LINE DIFFERENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SUBSTITUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 67649118282     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0155     Document Type: Note

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