Article
Estimating the intensity of male-driven evolution in rodents by using X-linked and Y-linked Ube 1 genes and pseudogenes.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jan 1995
Chang B H, Li W H
Abstract excerpt
Using sequence data from the last introns of ZFX and ZFY genes, we previously estimated the male-to-female ratio (alpha) of mutation rate to be close to 6 in higher primates and 1.8 in rodents. As the mutation rate may vary among different regions of the mammalian genome, it is interesting to see whether sequence data from other regions will give similar estimates. In this study, we have determined the partial...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Ligases
- Male
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- Pseudogenes
- Rats
