Evolutionary rates of insertion and deletion in noncoding nucleotide sequences of primates.

Abstract excerpt

Insertions and deletions are responsible for gaps in aligned nucleotide sequences, but they have been usually ignored when the number of nucleotide substitutions was estimated. We compared six sets of nuclear and mitochondrial noncoding DNA sequences of primates and obtained the estimates of the evolutionary rate of insertion and deletion. The maximum-parsimony principle was applied to locate insertions and...

Topics

• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Cell Nucleus
• DNA
• DNA, Mitochondrial
• Humans
• Introns
• Mutation
• Primates
• Sequence Deletion