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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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The neutral theory of molecular evolution assumes that most new mutations are either deleterious (and quickly purged by selection) or else neutral, with...
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  • up neutralism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Neutralism may refer to: Neutral theory of molecular evolution Biological interaction § Neutralism Neutral...
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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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  • the Molecular Level", with proposing what became known as the neutral theory of molecular evolution. The paper brings together a wide variety of evidence...
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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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  • Neutral theory may refer to one of these two related theories: Neutral theory of molecular evolution Unified neutral theory of biodiversity This disambiguation...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • John H. Gillespie (category University of California, Davis faculty)
    proponent of natural selection in molecular evolution. He had a well-known feud with the father of the neutral theory of molecular evolution, Motoo Kimura...
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    of evolution rose to prominence in the 1960s, followed by the neutral theory of molecular evolution, sparking debates over adaptationism, the unit of...
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  • mitochondrial molecular clock Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam Models of DNA evolution Molecular evolution Neutral theory of molecular evolution Glottochronology...
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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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    The neutral theory of molecular evolution, proposed by Motoo Kimura in 1968, holds that at the molecular level most evolutionary changes and most of the...
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  • 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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  • simple one-locus models that comply with assumptions of the neutral theory of molecular evolution. The effective population size is normally smaller than...
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  • Nonsynonymous substitution (category Molecular biology)
    strictly neutral theory of molecular evolution, which states that mutations are mostly neutral or deleterious, and provides support for theories that include...
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  • HKA test (category Molecular evolution)
    statistical test used in genetics to evaluate the predictions of the Neutral Theory of molecular evolution. By comparing the polymorphism within each species and...
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  • The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography (here "Unified Theory" or "UNTB") is a theory and the title of a monograph by ecologist Stephen...
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  • Jack Lester King (category Neutral theory)
    (with Thomas H. Jukes) a seminal paper on the neutral theory of molecular evolution, "Non-Darwinian Evolution". King was born in Oakland, California and...
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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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  • 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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  • (often in the absence of heterosis) in opposition to the neutral theory of molecular evolution. Another example is plant self-incompatibility alleles....
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  • Emile Zuckerkandl (category American molecular biologists)
    clock", which enabled the neutral theory of molecular evolution. Zuckerkandl was raised in Vienna, Austria in a household of intellectuals, but his family...
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    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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