Molecular evolution of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit <it>5</it>A gene in primates
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Many electron transport chain (ETC) genes show accelerated rates of nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions in anthropoid primate lineages, yet in non-anthropoid lineages the ETC proteins are typically highly conserved. Here, we test...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-01-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/8 |