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 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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Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution is an influential monograph written in 1983 by Japanese evolutionary biologist Motoo Kimura. While the neutral theory...
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sequences as a molecular clock to estimate the time since the last common ancestor. In the late 1960s, the neutral theory of molecular evolution provided a...
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inspired the neutral theory of molecular evolution in the late 1960s. Neutral theory also provided a theoretical basis for the molecular clock, although...
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different sets of alleles. According to the neutral theory of molecular evolution most evolutionary changes are the result of the fixation of neutral mutations...
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Motoo Kimura (category Neutral theory)
Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population...
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Genetics (section Molecular genetics)
amendment to the neutral theory of molecular evolution through publishing the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution. In this theory, Ohta stressed...
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Population genetics (redirect from History of population genetics)
relative roles of selection and drift. The availability of molecular data on all genetic differences led to the neutral theory of molecular evolution. In this...
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study of neutral mutations has led to the development of the neutral theory of molecular evolution, which is an important and often-controversial theory that...
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number verification needed][page needed] The neutral theory of molecular evolution is used to study evolution as a null model against which tests for natural...
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Neutral theory of molecular evolution – Theory of evolution by changes at the molecular level Nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution – Variant of one...
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helped astronomers develop theories about stellar evolution. Many O and B type stars have been observed in or very near molecular clouds. Since these star...
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selection is not powerful enough to eliminate them (see Nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution). The human genome contains about 15,000 pseudogenes...
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(太田 朋子; born 1933), Japanese geneticist, pioneer of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution Tomoko Oka (岡 智子; born 1964), Japanese fencer Tomoko...
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Tomoko Ohta (category Neutral theory)
of the National Institute of Genetics. Ohta works on population genetics/molecular evolution and is known for developing the nearly neutral theory of...
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Natural selection (redirect from Theory of evolution by natural selection)
Motoo Kimura's neutral theory of molecular evolution by genetic drift proposes that this variation accounts for a large fraction of observed genetic...
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Neutral theory of molecular evolution RNA world Nucleic acid secondary structure van Nimwegen, E; Crutchfield, JP; Huynen, M (Aug 17, 1999). "Neutral...
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Nonsynonymous substitution (category Molecular biology)
nonsynonymous substitutions in mammalian genes and the nearly neutral theory". Journal of Molecular Evolution. 40 (1): 56–63. Bibcode:1995JMolE..40...56T. doi:10...
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Stoltzfus, Arlin (1999). "On the Possibility of Constructive Neutral Evolution". Journal of Molecular Evolution. 49 (2): 169–181. Bibcode:1999JMolE..49..169S...
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factors create a distribution of fitness effects of mutations that contains a high proportion of neutral and nearly-neutral mutations. During embryonic...
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Hydrogen (redirect from Molecular hydrogen)
Neutral Triatomic Hydrogen", Dissociative Recombination of Molecular Ions with Electrons, Department of Molecular and Optical Physics, University of Freiburg...
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view of evolution in 1968 since it seemed likely that nonfunctional DNA would be eliminated by natural selection. The development of the neutral theory and...
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neutral theory in 1968 built on Haldane's work to suggest that most molecular evolution is neutral, resolving the dilemma. Although neutral evolution...
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McDonald–Kreitman test (category Molecular evolution)
the tendency of slightly deleterious mutations to increase in frequency, refer to the article Nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution. Additionally...
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Molecular ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that is concerned with applying molecular genetic techniques to ecological questions (e.g., population...
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Mutation (redirect from Loss-of-function mutation)
clock. In the neutral theory of molecular evolution, neutral mutations provide genetic drift as the basis for most variation at the molecular level. In animals...
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the outcome of evolution. It is relevant to topics in molecular evolution, evo-devo, and self-organization. In the context of this theory, "introduction"...
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holds no official position on the theory of creation or evolution, leaving the specifics of either theistic evolution or literal creationism to the individual...
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Microevolution (redirect from Micro-evolution)
neutral theory of molecular evolution which claims that most of the changes in the genetic material are caused by genetic drift. The predictions of neutral...
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