In search of molecular darwinism
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Summary
Studies of a digestive enzyme in primates, involving the reconstruction of DNA sequences that have long been extinct, show a way forward in detecting adaptive evolution at the molecular level.
- Type
- letter
- Published
- 1997-01-09
- Cited by
- 118
- References
- 6
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Keywords
Darwinism, Molecular evolution, Evolutionary biology, Biology, Computational biology
References
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- Episodic adaptive evolution of primate lysozymes
- Pattern of nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class I loci reveals overdominant selection
- Adaptive evolution in the stomach lysozymes of foregut fermenters
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