• Molecular evolution describes how inherited DNA and/or RNA change over evolutionary time, and the consequences of this for proteins and other components...
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    The neutral theory of molecular evolution holds that most evolutionary changes occur at the molecular level, and most of the variation within and between...
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  • The history of molecular evolution starts in the early 20th century with "comparative biochemistry", but the field of molecular evolution came into its...
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  • The Journal of Molecular Evolution is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers molecular evolution. It is published by Springer Science+Business...
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    (December 2005). "Selectionism and Neutralism in Molecular Evolution". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22 (12): 2318–2342. doi:10.1093/molbev/msi242....
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  • rate of molecular change was originally purely phenomenological. Later, the work of Motoo Kimura developed the neutral theory of molecular evolution, which...
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  • includes the use of molecular data in taxonomy and biogeography. Molecular phylogenetics and molecular evolution correlate. Molecular evolution is the process...
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    Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for...
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    the genetic architecture of adaptation, molecular evolution, and the different forces that contribute to evolution, such as sexual selection, genetic drift...
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  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of evolutionary biology and phylogenetics. The journal is edited by E.A. Zimmer...
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  • The nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution is a modification of the neutral theory of molecular evolution that accounts for the fact that not all...
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    by Systematically Simulating Darwinian Evolution". Directed Evolution Library Creation. Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 1179. pp. 103–28. doi:10...
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    evolutionary history of life. After the rise of molecular genetics in the 1950s, the field of molecular evolution developed, based on protein sequences and...
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    The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution is an influential monograph written in 1983 by Japanese evolutionary biologist Motoo Kimura. While the neutral...
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  • microevolution is evolution occurring within the population(s) of a single species. In other words, microevolution is the scale of evolution that is limited...
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  • The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) is a scientific and academic organization founded in 1982 to support academic research in the field...
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  • Origin and Evolution of Cells". The Cell: A Molecular Approach (2nd ed.). Sinauer Associates. Fox SW, Dose K (1972). Molecular evolution and the origin...
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  • molecular evolution of complex sequences, such as proteins." Evolutionary molecular engineering, also called directed evolution or in vitro molecular...
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  • recombination cannot disrupt linkage disequilibrium. The neutral theory of molecular evolution assumes that most new mutations are either deleterious (and quickly...
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    Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates analogous...
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    proteins. He proposed an abiogenic theory of the origin of life, and molecular evolution from single nucleotides and amino acids to present-day DNA and protein...
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  • ISBN 978-0-87893-189-7. Hahn, M.W. (2008). "Toward a selection theory of molecular evolution". Evolution. 62 (2): 255–265. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00308.x. PMID 18302709...
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  • so widespread and ancient, they can be used as molecular markers in studies of ancient cellular evolution. Phylogenetic analysis using two families of HSPs...
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    "Linking the molecular evolution of avian beta (β) keratins to the evolution of feathers" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental...
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    Evidence for this explanation for the evolution of sex is provided by comparison of the rate of molecular evolution of genes for kinases and immunoglobulins...
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    In evolution, a maladaptation (/ˌmælædæpˈteɪʃən/) is a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful, in contrast with an adaptation, which...
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    to sweep away all the alternatives to Darwinian evolution, though some have been revived as molecular mechanisms for them have been discovered. Aristotle...
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  • mechanism of evolution. However, in the last half century, there has been considerable debate as to whether evolutionary changes at the molecular level are...
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    classification Experimental evolution – Use of laboratory and field experiments to explore evolutionary dynamics Molecular evolution – Process of change in...
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    Formation in Tectonic Fault Zones—an Ideal Scenario for Molecular Evolution". Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 45 (1): 139–148. Bibcode:2015OLEB...
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