Bottleneck effect on evolutionary rate in the nearly neutral mutation model.

doi:10.1093/genetics/147.2.907

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Bottleneck effect on evolutionary rate in the nearly neutral mutation model.

Genetics - 1 Oct 1997

Araki H, Tachida H

Abstract excerpt

Variances of evolutionary rates among lineages in some proteins are larger than those expected from simple Poisson processes. This phenomenon is called overdispersion of the molecular clock. If population size N is constant, the overdispersion is observed only in a limited range of 2N sigma under...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Polymorphism, Genetic

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