Universal pacemaker of genome evolution in animals and fungi and variation of evolutionary rates in diverse organisms

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1268-1278

  Snir, Sagi ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome evolution; Molecular clock; Phylogenetic trees; Relative evolution rates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 84902958031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu091     Document Type: Article

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