Article
Molecular clock or erratic evolution? A tale of two genes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Oct 1996
Ayala F J, Barrio E, Kwiatowski J
Abstract excerpt
We have investigated the evolution of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (Gpdh). The rate of amino acid replacements is 1 x 10(-10)/site/year when Drosophila species are compared. The rate is 2.7 times greater when Drosophila and Chymomyza species are compared; and about 5 times greater when any...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Diptera
- Drosophila
- Drosophilidae
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Glycerolphosphate Dehydrogenase
- Humans
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Rabbits
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Schizosaccharomyces
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Superoxide Dismutase