• 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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    (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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    by Systematically Simulating Darwinian Evolution". Directed Evolution Library Creation. Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 1179. pp. 103–28. doi:10...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    (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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  • molecular evolution of complex sequences, such as proteins." Evolutionary molecular engineering, also called directed evolution or in vitro molecular...
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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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  • Parallel evolution is the similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, but share a similar original trait in response...
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  • "Integrating fossils with molecular phylogenies improves inference of trait evolution". Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 66 (12): 3931–3944...
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    stop codons. Molecular evolution studies, using Spiroplasma passaged vertically in Drosophila, indicate a very fast rate of molecular evolution. Spiroplasma...
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  • (1983). The neutral theory of molecular evolution. Cambridge Kimura, M. (1968). "Evolutionary Rate at the Molecular Level". Nature. 217 (5129): 624–6...
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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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