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Nonuniform Molecular Divergence

The Quantitative Evolutionary Analysis of Genes and Messenger RNAs under Selective Structural Constraints

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Macromolecular Sequences in Systematic and Evolutionary Biology

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Abstract

The divergence of species is accompanied by molecular changes in the primary structure of genes and their messenger RNA products. In the present chapter we consider the simplest of such changes, those caused by point mutation: the replacement of one nucleoside—adenosine (A), cytidine (C), guanosine (G), or thymidine (T)—by another and fixation of that replacement by natural selection or by random drift.

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    Richard Holmquist & Thomas H. Jukes

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    Dennis Pearl

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Holmquist, R., Jukes, T.H., Pearl, D. (1982). Nonuniform Molecular Divergence. In: Goodman, M. (eds) Macromolecular Sequences in Systematic and Evolutionary Biology. Monographs in Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4283-0_7

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