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Contributions of protein-coding and regulatory change to adaptive molecular evolution in murid rodents.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2013
Halligan Daniel L, Kousathanas Athanasios, Ness Rob W, Harr Bettina, Eöry Lél, Keane Thomas M, Adams David J, Keightley Peter D
Abstract excerpt
The contribution of regulatory versus protein change to adaptive evolution has long been controversial. In principle, the rate and strength of adaptation within functional genetic elements can be quantified on the basis of an excess of nucleotide substitutions between species compared to the neut...
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