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Characterization of evolutionary rates and constraints in three Mammalian genomes.
Genome research - 1 Apr 2004
Cooper Gregory M, Brudno Michael, Stone Eric A, Dubchak Inna, Batzoglou Serafim, Sidow Arend
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We present an analysis of rates and patterns of microevolutionary phenomena that have shaped the human, mouse, and rat genomes since their last common ancestor. We find evidence for a shift in the mutational spectrum between the mouse and rat lineages, with the net effect being a relative increase in GC content in the rat genome. Our estimate for the neutral point substitution rate separating the two rodents is...
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