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Elevated rates of nonsynonymous substitution in island birds.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 May 2001

Johnson K P, Seger J

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Slightly deleterious mutations are expected to fix at relatively higher rates in small populations than in large populations. Support for this prediction of the nearly-neutral theory of molecular evolution comes from many cases in which lineages inferred to differ in long-term average population...

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PMID: 11319271
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003869

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