Testing the covarion hypothesis of molecular evolution.

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The covarion hypothesis of molecular evolution states that the fixation of mutations may alter the probability that any given position will fix the next change. Tests of this hypothesis using the divergence of real sequences are compromised because models of rate variation among sites (e.g., the gamma version of the one-parameter equation) predict sequence divergence values similar to those for the covarion...

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