The pattern of mammalian evolution and the relative rate of molecular evolution.

doi:10.1093/genetics/124.1.165

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The pattern of mammalian evolution and the relative rate of molecular evolution.

Genetics - 1 Jan 1990

Easteal S

Abstract excerpt

The rates of nucleotide substitution at four genes in four orders of eutherian mammals are compared in relative rate tests using marsupial orthologs for reference. There is no evidence of systematic variation in evolutionary rate among the orders. The sequences are used to reconstruct the phyloge...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
Cattle
Genes
Genetic Variation
Humans
Introns
Kinetics
Mice
Models, Genetic
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Phylogeny
Rabbits
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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