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Estimation of Evolutionary Rates of Mitochondrial DNA in Two Japanese Wood Mouse Species Based on Calibrations with Quaternary Environmental Changes.
Zoological science - 1 Jun 2017
Hanazaki Kaori, Tomozawa Morihiko, Suzuki Yutaro, Kinoshita Gohta, Yamamoto Masanobu, Irino Tomohisa, Suzuki Hitoshi
Abstract excerpt
Reliable estimates of evolutionary rates of mitochondrial DNA might allow us to build realistic evolutionary scenarios covering broad time scales based on phylogenetic inferences. In the present study, we sought to obtain estimates of evolutionary rates in murine rodents using calibrations against historical biogeographic events. We first assumed that land-bridge-like structures that appeared intermittently at...
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