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 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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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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(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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Evolutionary biology (redirect from Evolution (subfield))
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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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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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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Macroevolution (redirect from Macro-evolution)
shaping evolution, particularly such topics as heterochrony and phenotypic plasticity. Extinction event Interspecific competition Microevolution Molecular evolution...
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History of evolutionary thought (redirect from Evolution of evolution)
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 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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Feather (redirect from Evolution of the feather)
"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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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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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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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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suggesting convergent evolution. Many examples of convergent evolution exist in insects in terms of developing resistance at a molecular level to toxins. One...
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Yin-Qiu; Su, Bing (July 2008). "Molecular Evolution of a Primate-Specific microRNA Family". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25 (7): 1493–1502. doi:10.1093/molbev/msn094...
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Abiogenesis (redirect from Prebiotic evolution)
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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by Systematically Simulating Darwinian Evolution". Directed Evolution Library Creation. Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 1179. pp. 103–28. doi:10...
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Microevolution (redirect from Micro-evolution)
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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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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of the 20th century when ideas such as Kimura's neutral theory of molecular evolution was given much attention. The significance of the work on ecological...
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Bjørn Grinde (section Molecular evolution)
focused on molecular evolution, using viruses as a model system. For the later part of his career, the focus has been on understanding how evolution has shaped...
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verification needed][page needed] The neutral theory of molecular evolution is used to study evolution as a null model against which tests for natural selection...
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geneticist Motoo Kimura rekindled the debate with his neutral theory of molecular evolution, which claims that most instances where a genetic change spreads...
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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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Substitution model (redirect from Model of evolution)
(December 1998). "Estimating the rate of evolution of the rate of molecular evolution". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15 (12): 1647–1657. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals...
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Eukaryote (redirect from Evolution of eukaryotes)
sexual lineage and the relevance of facultative sex". Journal of Molecular Evolution. 48 (6): 779–783. Bibcode:1999JMolE..48..779D. doi:10.1007/PL00013156...
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