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Life history effects on the molecular clock of autosomes and sex chromosomes

2015-08-10

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One of the foundational results of molecular evolution is that the rate at which neutral substitutions accumulate on a lineage equals the rate at which mutations arise. Traits that affect rates of mutation therefore also affect the phylogenetic “molecular clock”. We consider the effects of sex-specific generation times and mutation rates in species with two sexes. In particular, we focus on the effects that the ag...

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Literature Corpus work: f8efbe8f-80ab-5a24-a265-cc0a41531386
DOI: 10.1101/024281

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