Neutralism and selectionism: the molecular clock
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Neutralism and selectionism: the molecular clock.
The neutrality theory predicts that the rate of molecular evolution will be constant over time, and thus that there is a molecular clock for timing evolutionary events. It has been observed that the variance of the rate of evolution is generally larger than expected according to the neutrality theory. Several modifications of the theory have been proposed to account for the 'overdispersion' of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gene
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0378-1119
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(00)00479-0