Are radical and conservative substitution rates useful statistics in molecular evolution?

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A DNA mutation in a protein coding gene which causes an amino acid change can be classified as "conservative" or "radical" depending on the magnitude of the physicochemical difference between the two amino acids: radical mutations involve larger changes than conservative mutations. Here, I examine two key issues in determining whether radical and conservative substitution rates are useful statistics in molecular...

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