Directional mutation pressure, mutator mutations, and dynamics of molecular evolution.

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Directional mutation pressure, mutator mutations, and dynamics of molecular evolution.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Aug 1993

Sueoka N

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Using a general form of the directional mutation theory, this paper analyzes the effect of mutations in mutator genes on the G+C content of DNA, the frequency of substitution mutations, and evolutionary changes (cumulative mutations) under various degrees of selective constraints. Directional mut...

Topics

Animals
Base Composition
Biological Evolution
Codon
DNA
Genetics, Population
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Phylogeny
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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