How are these timescales measured in terms of species divergence and evolution on a molecular level? A different type of clock is used, a Molecular Clock. Instead of measuring seconds, minutes, and hours, the molecular clock measures the constant rate of change in an organism's genome (DNA ...
Scribner KT, Petersen MR, Fields RL, Talbot SL, Pearce JM, Chesser RK: Sex-biased gene flow in spectacled eiders (Anatidae): inferences from molecular markers with contrasting modes of inheritance. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution. 2001, 55 (10): 2105-2115. Article CAS Pu...
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Understanding whether genomic selection has been effective in livestock and when the results of genomic selection became visible are essential questions which we have addressed in this paper. Three criteria were used to identify practices of breeding programs over time: (1) the point of divergence of...
- 《Gene An International Journal Focusing on Gene Cloning & Gene Structure & Function》 被引量: 44发表: 2013年 The Centrifugal Visual System: What can Comparative Studies Tell Us about Its Evolution and Possible Function? A wide variety of techniques has been used during the last century to ...
Taking the 1st stage project of west-line for transferring water from southern to northern China as an example,and based on the field survey and analysis of the information for the project region,the coevolution rules of the debris flow hazard system are discussed.Debris flow hazard system is ...
The unusual long-branch length indicates that theS. erythranummitochondrial genomes are evolving rapidly. The population of soil-dwelling proturans is usually very small. Mutations may accumulate faster in such organisms due to the slow rate of gene flow. This also seems true for nematodes, parasi...
- 《Trends in Ecology & Evolution》 被引量: 933发表: 2008年 Environmental selection on transcriptome-derived SNPs in a high gene flow marine fish, the Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus). High gene flow is considered the norm for most marine organisms and is expected to limit their ability to...
Primary Carboniferous and Permian paleomagnetic results from the Yili Block (NW China) and their implications on the geodynamic evolution of Chinese Tiansh... the P 2 paleomagnetic pole of the Yili Block has been, therefore, calculated from the characteristic remanent magnetization: 79.7°N, 172.0°...
The review considers the current problems of molecular phylogenetics based on mitochondrial and chromosomal DNA sequences. The emphasis is placed on mtDNA markers, which are widely employed in reconstructing molecular evolution, but often without a critical analysis of the physiological and biochemical fea...