Relaxed purifying selection and possibly high rate of adaptation in primate lineage-specific genes

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 393-409

  Cai, James J ^a   Petrov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive selection; Evolutionary age; Lineage specific genes; Nonsynonymous polymorphism

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TIME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMATES; PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

NES; PRIMATES;

EID: 77958497573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evq019     Document Type: Article

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