The rates of molecular evolution in rodent and primate mitochondrial DNA.

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A higher rate of molecular evolution in rodents than in primates at synonymous sites and, to a lesser extent, at amino acid replacement sites has been reported previously for most nuclear genes examined. Thus in these genes the average ratio of amino acid replacement to synonymous substitution rates in rodents is lower than in primates, an observation at odds with the neutral model of molecular evolution. Under...

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