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A set of simple equations is derived which gives the relationship between the observed amino acid differences per 100 codons and the evolutionary distance per 100 codons using Holmquist's stochastic model of molecular evolution.
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Contribution No. 910 from the National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka-ken 411 Japan.
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Kimura, M., Ohta, T. On the stochastic model for estimation of mutational distance between homologous proteins. J Mol Evol 2, 87–90 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01653945
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01653945