Generation time, life history and the substitution rate of neutral mutations

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Lehtonen, Jussi ^a,b   Lanfear, Robert ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Generation time; Life history; Molecular evolution; Neutral substitution rate

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; FECUNDITY; GENERATION TIME; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTATION; PREDICTION;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FERTILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERTILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84939839653     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0801     Document Type: Article

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