molecular evolution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmolecularandevolution
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molecular
adjective
uk/məˈlek.jə.lər/us/məˈlek.jə.lɚ/
relating to molecules (= the simplest units of a ...
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evolution
noun[U]
uk/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/us/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/
the way in which living things change and develop over millions ...
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(Definition ofmolecularandevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Estimating the rate ofmolecularevolution: incorporating non-contemporaneous sequences into maximum likelihood phylogenies.
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Mating system, recombination andmolecularevolutionoutcrossing and self-fertilizing lineages actually have different selection patterns.
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Although these models are designed to studymolecularevolution, they share much with some standard quantitative-genetic models.
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We report on the peculiarities of parabolic growth, its sequence selectivity, its temperature response, and its implications formolecularevolution.
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A test ofmolecularevolutionbased on nucleotide data.
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This also offers a potential new insight into themolecularevolutionand the spread of those microbes.
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Quantifying the slightly deleterious mutation model ofmolecularevolution.
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It is concluded that error thresholds possibly play a much less important role inmolecularevolutionthan has often been assumed in the past.
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The latter is a fitness function which captures some essential features ofmolecularevolution, such as neutrality, compensatory mutations and flat ridges.
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The neutral theory ofmolecularevolutionis not mentioned as the null hypothesis against which we can test for selection.
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This combination of experimental and computational biology defines a powerful approach to understanding the mechanisms ofmolecularevolution.
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Whilst there are many structure prediction programs and many programs dealing withmolecularevolution and phylogenetics, there are few that combine these two.
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This can be viewed as short-termmolecularevolution, but has a series of specific characteristics.
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Accuracy and power of the likelihood ratio test in detecting adaptivemolecularevolution.
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Disparate rates ofmolecularevolutionin cospeciating hosts and parasites.
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The problem of self-organization in molecular biology combines the combinatorial complexity of statistical mechanics with its huge phase space, with the complexity ofmolecularevolutionwith its gigantic sequence space.
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The author considers a miscellaneous collection of observations and problems, and demonstrates how they are each consistent with mutation and genetic drift as primary determinants ofmolecularevolution.
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Extending the null hypothesis ofmolecularevolution.
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The forces drivingmolecularevolution.
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