A test of neutral molecular evolution based on nucleotide data.
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Summary
A conservative statistical test of the neutral theory of molecular evolution's prediction that regions of the genome that evolve at high rates, as revealed by interspecific DNA sequence comparisons, will also exhibit high levels of polymorphism within species is presented.
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- article
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- 1987-05-01
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- 1,786
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- Open access
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Keywords
Biology, Intraspecific competition, Genetics, Interspecific competition, Genome
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