The neutral theory of molecular evolution holds that most evolutionary changes occur at the molecular level, and most of the variation within and between...
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The nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution is a modification of the neutral theory of molecular evolution that accounts for the fact that not all...
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Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution is an influential monograph written in 1983 by Japanese evolutionary biologist Motoo Kimura. While the neutral theory...
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inspired the neutral theory of molecular evolution in the late 1960s. Neutral theory also provided a theoretical basis for the molecular clock, although...
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sequences as a molecular clock to estimate the time since the last common ancestor. In the late 1960s, the neutral theory of molecular evolution provided a...
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study of neutral mutations has led to the development of the neutral theory of molecular evolution, which is an important and often-controversial theory that...
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The neutral theory of molecular evolution, proposed by Motoo Kimura in 1968, holds that at the molecular level most evolutionary changes and most of the...
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The neutral theory of molecular evolution assumes that most new mutations are either deleterious (and quickly purged by selection) or else neutral, with...
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Motoo Kimura (category Neutral theory)
Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population...
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Genetic drift (redirect from Mathematical models of genetic drift)
geneticist Motoo Kimura rekindled the debate with his neutral theory of molecular evolution, which claims that most instances where a genetic change spreads...
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of evolution rose to prominence in the 1960s, followed by the neutral theory of molecular evolution, sparking debates over adaptationism, the unit of...
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fitness Neutral theory – Theory of evolution by changes at the molecular level Shifting balance theory – One version of the theory of evolution Price equation –...
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Neutral theory may refer to one of these two related theories: Neutral theory of molecular evolution Unified neutral theory of biodiversity This disambiguation...
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different sets of alleles. According to the neutral theory of molecular evolution most evolutionary changes are the result of the fixation of neutral mutations...
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Constructive neutral evolution (CNE) is a theory that seeks to explain how complex systems can evolve through neutral transitions and spread through a...
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Nonsynonymous substitution (category Molecular biology)
strictly neutral theory of molecular evolution, which states that mutations are mostly neutral or deleterious, and provides support for theories that include...
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Population genetics (redirect from History of population genetics)
relative roles of selection and drift. The availability of molecular data on all genetic differences led to the neutral theory of molecular evolution. In this...
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number verification needed][page needed] The neutral theory of molecular evolution is used to study evolution as a null model against which tests for natural...
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Neutral theory of molecular evolution RNA world Nucleic acid secondary structure van Nimwegen, E; Crutchfield, JP; Huynen, M (Aug 17, 1999). "Neutral...
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The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography (here "Unified Theory" or "UNTB") is a theory and the title of a monograph by ecologist Stephen...
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mitochondrial molecular clock Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam Models of DNA evolution Molecular evolution Neutral theory of molecular evolution Glottochronology...
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Background selection (category Neutral theory)
assumption of the neutral theory of molecular evolution that the fixation or loss of a neutral allele can be described by one-locus models of genetic drift...
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Tomoko Ohta (category Neutral theory)
of the National Institute of Genetics. Ohta works on population genetics/molecular evolution and is known for developing the nearly neutral theory of...
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Natural selection (redirect from Theory of evolution by natural selection)
Motoo Kimura's neutral theory of molecular evolution by genetic drift proposes that this variation accounts for a large fraction of observed genetic...
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Emile Zuckerkandl (category American molecular biologists)
clock", which enabled the neutral theory of molecular evolution. Zuckerkandl was raised in Vienna, Austria in a household of intellectuals, but his family...
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the Molecular Level", with proposing what became known as the neutral theory of molecular evolution. The paper brings together a wide variety of evidence...
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Genetics (section Molecular genetics)
amendment to the neutral theory of molecular evolution through publishing the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution. In this theory, Ohta stressed...
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John H. Gillespie (category University of California, Davis faculty)
proponent of natural selection in molecular evolution. He had a well-known feud with the father of the neutral theory of molecular evolution, Motoo Kimura...
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up neutralism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Neutralism may refer to: Neutral theory of molecular evolution Biological interaction § Neutralism Neutral...
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Evolutionary landscape (section Molecular era)
effect on fitness, which is what one would expect with the neutral theory of molecular evolution. In contrast, if small movements result in large changes...
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