Evolution of RNases in leaf monkeys: being parallel gene duplications or parallel gene conversions is a problem of molecular phylogeny.
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Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA b School of Life Sciences, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, and Center for Evolutionary Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, 322 Science II, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
دوره 50 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009