Mitochondrial DNA sequences of primates: Tempo and mode of evolution

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BiologyMitochondrial DNAGorillaRate of evolutionHeavy strandMolecular evolutionGeneticsDNAGeneEvolutionary biologySequence (biology)Base pairNucleic acid sequencePhylogeneticsTransfer RNAPaleontologyRNA

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Year: 1982
Type: article
Volume: 18
Issue: 4
Pages: 225-239
Citations: 1569
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                                    Wesley M. Brown, 
                                
                                    Ellen M. Prager, 
                                
                                    Alice Wang
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1982). 
                            Mitochondrial DNA sequences of primates: Tempo and mode of evolution. 
                            Journal of Molecular Evolution
                            , 18
                            (4)
                            , 225-239.
                            https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01734101
                        

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DOI: 10.1007/bf01734101