Molecular clock in neutral protein evolution

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A frequent observation in molecular evolution is that amino-acid substitution rates show an index of dispersion (that is, ratio of variance to mean) substantially larger than one. This observation has been termed the overdispersed mo...

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Main Author: Wilke Claus O
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2004-08-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/5/25