Article
Relative rates of nucleotide substitution at the rbcL locus of monocotyledonous plants.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Oct 1992
Gaut B S, Muse S V, Clark W D, Clegg M T
Abstract excerpt
We subjected 35 rbcL nucleotide sequences from monocotyledonous taxa to maximum likelihood relative rate tests and estimated relative differences in rates of nucleotide substitution between groups of sequences without relying on knowledge of divergence times between taxa. Rate tests revealed that there is a hierarchy of substitution rate at the rbcL locus within the monocots. Among the taxa analyzed the grasses...
Topics
- Genes, Plant
- Mathematics
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- Plants
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase
