Submissions tagged with molecular clock
(4 documents)
Primate phylogeny: molecular evidence for a pongid clade excluding humans and a prosimian clade containing tarsiers
Interpretations of molecular data by the modern evolution theory are often sharply inconsistent with paleontological results. This is to be expected since the theory is only true for microevolutio…
Received 21 September 2009 22:18 UTC; Posted 22 September 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
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 13 January 2009 19:33 UTC; Posted 15 January 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
The genetic equidistance result of molecular evolution is independent of mutation rates
The well-established genetic equidistance result shows that sister species are approximately equidistant to a simpler outgroup as measured by DNA or protein dissimilarity. The equidistance result …
Received 24 November 2008 19:59 UTC; Posted 25 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
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 16:14 UTC; Posted 25 July 2008
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
