Evidence for pervasive adaptive protein evolution in wild mice.

The relative contributions of neutral and adaptive substitutions to molecular evolution has been one of the most controversial issues in evolutionary biology for more than 40 years. The analysis of within-species nucleotide polymorphism and between-species divergence data supports a widespread role...

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Main Authors: Daniel L Halligan, Fiona Oliver, Adam Eyre-Walker, Bettina Harr, Peter D Keightley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2809770?pdf=render