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Neutral theory, phylogenies, and the relationship between phenotypic change and evolutionary rates.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2006
Davies T Jonathan, Savolainen Vincent
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The neutral theory of molecular evolution predicts that rates of phenotypic change are largely independent from genotypic change. A recent study by Bromham et al. (2002) confirmed this expectation, finding no evidence for correlated phenotypic and molecular evolutionary rates in animals. We reevaluate this hypothesis, sampling at different taxonomic levels in plants and animals, using Bayesian inference to...
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