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Molecular considerations in the evolution of bacterial genes.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Sept 1991
Lawrence J G, Hartl D L, Ochman H
Abstract excerpt
Synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates at the loci encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gap) and outer membrane protein 3A (ompA) were examined in 12 species of enteric bacteria. By examining homologous sequences in species of varying degrees of relatedness and of known phylogenetic relationships, we analyzed the patterns of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions within and among these...
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