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

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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 the nearly neutral mutation model, where sigma represents the standard deviation of selection coefficients of new...

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