Submissions tagged with molecular clock
(3 documents)
Ancient fossil specimens of extinct species are genetically more distant to an outgroup than extant sister species are
There exists a remarkable correlation between genetic distance as measured by protein or DNA dissimilarity and time of species divergence as inferred from fossil records. This observation has prov...
Received 23 July 2008 16:07 GMT; Posted 25 July 2008
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Bioinformatics
Inverse relationship between genetic diversity and epigenetic complexity
Early studies of molecular evolution revealed a correlation between genetic distance and time of species divergence. This observation provoked the molecular clock hypothesis and in turn the ‘Neutr...
Received 01 April 2008 23:42 GMT; Posted 02 April 2008
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Genetics, Bioinformatics
The genetic equidistance result of molecular evolution is independent of mutation rates
The genetic equidistance result shows that sister species are approximately equidistant to an outgroup as measured by DNA or protein dissimilarity. The equidistance result is the most direct evide...
Received 27 March 2008 20:18 GMT; Posted 28 March 2008
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Genetics, Bioinformatics