Article
Large sequence divergence among mitochondrial DNA genotypes within populations of eastern African black-backed jackals.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Mar 1990
Wayne R K, Meyer A, Lehman N, Van Valkenburgh B, Kat P W, Fuller T K, Girman D, O'Brien S J
Abstract excerpt
In discussions about the relative rate of molecular evolution, intraspecific variability in rate is rarely considered. An underlying assumption is that intraspecific sequence differences are small, and thus variations in rate would be difficult to detect or would not affect comparisons among distantly related taxa. However, several studies on mammalian mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have revealed considerable...
Topics
- Africa, Eastern
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Carnivora
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Restriction Mapping