Explaining the imperfection of the molecular clock of hominid mitochondria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Loogväli, Eva Liis ^a,b   Kivisild, Toomas ^a,c   Margus, Tõnu ^b   Villems, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PAN TROGLODYTES; RNA; TIME FACTORS;

HOMINIDAE; PAN;

EID: 77954075587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008260     Document Type: Article

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