The relative rate of DNA evolution in primates.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040632

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The relative rate of DNA evolution in primates.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jan 1991

Easteal S

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In 73 relative-rate tests involving the sequences of 17 genes between humans and six nonhuman primate taxa, there is only one significant (P less than 0.01) difference in evolutionary rate--i.e., that between human and Old World-monkey psi eta-globin genes. No evolutionary rate difference between...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
Cercopithecidae
DNA
DNA, Mitochondrial
Genetic Variation
Globins
Humans
Primates
Thermodynamics

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