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- Mathematical model for studying genetic variation in terms of restriction endonucleases. (1979) (10294)
- Statistical tests of neutrality of mutations. (1993) (3860)
- The codon Adaptation Index--a measure of directional synonymous codon usage bias, and its potential applications. (1987) (3264)
- Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear DNAs. (1987) (1999)
- A new method for estimating synonymous and nonsynonymous rates of nucleotide substitution considering the relative likelihood of nucleotide and codon changes. (1985) (1059)
- Evidence for higher rates of nucleotide substitution in rodents than in man. (1985) (872)
- Genomic divergences between humans and other hominoids and the effective population size of the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. (2001) (721)
- Maximum likelihood estimation of the heterogeneity of substitution rate among nucleotide sites. (1995) (604)
- Date of the monocot-dicot divergence estimated from chloroplast DNA sequence data. (1989) (603)
- Codon usage in regulatory genes in Escherichia coli does not reflect selection for 'rare' codons. (1986) (487)
- Low nucleotide diversity in man. (1991) (484)
- Transposable elements are found in a large number of human protein-coding genes. (2001) (422)
- The rate of synonymous substitution in enterobacterial genes is inversely related to codon usage bias. (1987) (341)
- Rates of nucleotide substitution in primates and rodents and the generation-time effect hypothesis. (1996) (339)
- The apolipoprotein multigene family: biosynthesis, structure, structure-function relationships, and evolution. (1988) (302)
- Molecular phylogeny of extant gymnosperms and seed plant evolution: analysis of nuclear 18S rRNA sequences. (1997) (286)
- High polymorphism at the human melanocortin 1 receptor locus. (1999) (279)
- Linkage disequilibrium in subdivided populations. (1973) (277)
- Rates and dates of divergence between AIDS virus nucleotide sequences. (1988) (275)
- Molecular phylogeny of Rodentia, Lagomorpha, Primates, Artiodactyla, and Carnivora and molecular clocks. (1990) (255)
- Structure and evolution of the lipase superfamily. (1992) (251)
- Statistical properties of bootstrap estimation of phylogenetic variability from nucleotide sequences. I. Four taxa with a molecular clock. (1992) (211)
- The complete cDNA and amino acid sequence of human apolipoprotein B-100. (1986) (183)
- Structure and evolution of the apolipoprotein multigene family. (1986) (177)
- Rate of gene silencing at duplicate loci: a theoretical study and interpretation of data from tetraploid fishes. (1980) (177)
- Estimation of confidence in phylogeny: the complete-and-partial bootstrap technique. (1995) (171)
- Lipoprotein lipase and hepatic lipase mRNA tissue specific expression, developmental regulation, and evolution. (1989) (171)
- Simple method for constructing phylogenetic trees from distance matrices. (1981) (167)
- Distribution of nucleotide differences between two randomly chosen cistrons in a finite population. (1977) (158)
- Worldwide DNA sequence variation in a 10-kilobase noncoding region on human chromosome 22. (2000) (154)
- Assessment of compositional heterogeneity within and between eukaryotic genomes. (2000) (149)
- Selective constraints, amino acid composition, and the rate of protein evolution. (2000) (149)
- Accumulation of mutations in sexual and asexual populations. (1987) (145)
- Human hepatic lipase. Cloned cDNA sequence, restriction fragment length polymorphisms, chromosomal localization, and evolutionary relationships with lipoprotein lipase and pancreatic lipase. (1988) (144)
- Coalescing into the 21st century: An overview and prospects of coalescent theory. (1999) (144)
- Estimating the age of the common ancestor of a sample of DNA sequences. (1997) (127)
- Global patterns of human DNA sequence variation in a 10-kb region on chromosome 1. (2001) (123)
- Maximum likelihood estimation of population parameters. (1993) (122)
- Weak male-driven molecular evolution in rodents. (1994) (120)
- Chromosomal location and evolutionary rate variation in enterobacterial genes. (1989) (115)
- Rapid evolution of goat and sheep globin genes following gene duplication. (1983) (115)
- Mouse very-low-density-lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR) cDNA cloning, tissue-specific expression and evolutionary relationship with the low-density-lipoprotein receptor. (1994) (112)
- Molecular systematics of pikas (genus Ochotona) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. (2000) (106)
- Stable linkage disequilibrium without epistasis in subdivided populations. (1974) (96)
- Origins and antiquity of X-linked triallelic color vision systems in New World monkeys. (1998) (94)
- Evolution of paired domains: isolation and sequencing of jellyfish and hydra Pax genes related to Pax-5 and Pax-6. (1997) (93)
- Molecular phylogenetic studies of Brassica, rorippa, arabidopsis and allied genera based on the internal transcribed spacer region of 18S-25S rDNA. (1999) (91)
- Maintenance of Genetic Variability under the Joint Effect of Mutation, Selection and Random Drift. (1978) (90)
- Gene admixture in the silk road region of China: evidence from mtDNA and melanocortin 1 receptor polymorphism. (2000) (89)
- So, what about the molecular clock hypothesis? (1993) (88)
- Molecular phylogeny of the kingdoms Animalia, Plantae, and Fungi. (1989) (85)
- Higher rates of amino acid substitution in rodents than in humans. (1992) (84)
- Human liver fatty acid binding protein cDNA and amino acid sequence. Functional and evolutionary implications. (1985) (83)
- Densities, length proportions, and other distributional features of repetitive sequences in the human genome estimated from 430 megabases of genomic sequence. (2000) (80)
- Genomic divergence between human and chimpanzee estimated from large-scale alignments of genomic sequences. (2001) (77)
- Isolation and expression of a Pax-6 gene in the regenerating and intact Planarian Dugesia(G)tigrina. (1999) (76)
- Drift variances of heterozygosity and genetic distance in transient states. (1975) (76)
- Non-random association between electromorphs and inversion chromosomes in finite populations. (1980) (75)
- Apobec-1 and apolipoprotein B mRNA editing. (1997) (74)
- Phosphorylation of the Prostacyclin Receptor during Homologous Desensitization (1998) (72)
- Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees and estimation of divergence times under nonconstant rates of evolution. (1987) (71)
- A statistical test of phylogenies estimated from sequence data. (1989) (71)
- Episodic evolution of growth hormone in primates and emergence of the species specificity of human growth hormone receptor. (2001) (70)
- Human apolipoprotein B: analysis of internal repeats and homology with other apolipoproteins. (1987) (66)
- The molecular taxonomy and evolution of the guinea pig. (1992) (66)
- NJML: a hybrid algorithm for the neighbor-joining and maximum-likelihood methods. (2000) (61)
- Human DNA sequence variation in a 6.6-kb region containing the melanocortin 1 receptor promoter. (2001) (57)
- The transient distribution of allele frequencies under mutation pressure. (1976) (52)
- Apolipoprotein B mRNA editing. Validation of a sensitive assay and developmental biology of RNA editing in the rat. (1990) (52)
- No severe bottleneck during human evolution: evidence from two apolipoprotein C-II deficiency alleles. (1991) (51)
- Structure and expression of dog apolipoprotein A-I, E, and C-I mRNAs: implications for the evolution and functional constraints of apolipoprotein structure. (1989) (50)
- Distribution of nucleotide differences between two randomly chosen cistrons in a subdivided population: the finite island model. (1976) (50)
- Isolation and complete structure of the lymphocyte serine protease granzyme G, a novel member of the granzyme multigene family in murine cytolytic T lymphocytes. Evolutionary origin of lymphocyte proteases. (1989) (50)
- Retention of cryptic genes in microbial populations. (1984) (49)
- Estimation of evolutionary distances under stationary and nonstationary models of nucleotide substitution. (1998) (46)
- Bias-corrected paralinear and LogDet distances and tests of molecular clocks and phylogenies under nonstationary nucleotide frequencies. (1996) (46)
- A general additive distance with time-reversibility and rate variation among nucleotide sites. (1996) (46)
- Gene conversion and natural selection in the evolution of X-linked color vision genes in higher primates. (1996) (44)
- Molecular evolution of ubiquitin genes. (1987) (43)
- Evolution of glucagon genes. (1984) (41)
- The cDNA cloning and molecular evolution of reptile and pigeon lactate dehydrogenase isozymes. (1997) (41)
- Rates of nucleotide substitution are evidently higher in rodents than in man. (1987) (41)
- Sequences of primate insulin genes support the hypothesis of a slower rate of molecular evolution in humans and apes than in monkeys. (1992) (40)
- Intronic gene conversion in the evolution of human X-linked color vision genes. (1994) (40)
- Probability of identical monomorphism in related species. (1975) (39)
- Molecular cloning and expression of partial cDNAs and deduced amino acid sequence of a carboxyl-terminal fragment of human apolipoprotein B-100. (1985) (39)
- The first arrival time and mean age of a deleterious mutant gene in a finite population. (1975) (38)
- Persistence of common alleles in two related populations or species. (1977) (37)
- Structure and evolution of somatostatin genes. (1988) (37)
- Isolation of Cladonema Pax-B genes and studies of the DNA-binding properties of cnidarian Pax paired domains. (2001) (36)
- Total number of individuals affected by a single deleterious mutation in a finite population. (1972) (36)
- Chicken apolipoprotein A-I: cDNA sequence, tissue expression and evolution. (1987) (34)
- The biochemical phylogeny of guinea-pigs and gundis, and the paraphyly of the order rodentia. (1992) (33)
- Maintenance of genetic variability under mutation and selection pressures in a finite population. (1977) (33)
- Maintenance of genetic variability under the pressure of neutral and deleterious mutations in a finite population. (1979) (32)
- Statistical tests of molecular phylogenies. (1990) (32)
- Bushbaby growth hormone is much more similar to nonprimate growth hormones than to rhesus monkey and human growth hormones. (2001) (30)
- Structure and expression of dog apolipoprotein C-II and C-III mRNAs. Implications for the evolution and functional constraints of apolipoprotein structure. (1987) (29)
- Evolutionary change of restriction cleavage sites and phylogenetic inference. (1986) (28)
- Simulating allele frequencies in a population and the genetic differentiation of populations under mutation pressure. (1983) (28)
- NJML+: an extension of the NJML method to handle protein sequence data and computer software implementation. (2001) (28)
- A Mixed Model of Mutation for Electrophoretic Identity of Proteins within and between Populations. (1976) (28)
- A model for the correlation of mutation rate with GC content and the origin of GC-rich isochores (1994) (27)
- Evolution of base composition in the insulin and insulin-like growth factor genes. (1994) (27)
- Mouse microsomal triglyceride transfer protein large subunit: cDNA cloning, tissue-specific expression and chromosomal localization. (1996) (26)
- A novel Pax-6 binding site in rodent B1 repetitive elements: coevolution between developmental regulation and repeated elements? (2000) (25)
- The cDNA and protein sequences of mouse lactate dehydrogenase B. Molecular evolution of vertebrate lactate dehydrogenase genes A (muscle), B (heart) and C (testis). (1990) (25)
- Electrophoretic identity of proteins in a finite population and genetic distance between taxa. (1976) (25)
- Cloning and sequencing of bovine apolipoprotein A-I cDNA and molecular evolution of apolipoproteins A-I and B-100. (1990) (21)
- Sequence variation in ZFX introns in human populations. (1998) (18)
- Evolution of cytochrome c genes and pseudogenes (1986) (18)
- Molecular evolution of mammalian lactate dehydrogenase-A genes and pseudogenes: association of a mouse processed pseudogene with a B1 repetitive sequence. (1986) (17)
- Construction of linear invariants in phylogenetic inference. (1992) (15)
- Genetics of acheiropodia (the handless and footless families of Brazil). VII. Population dynamics. (1975) (15)
- Performance of the relative-rate test under nonstationary models of nucleotide substitution. (1999) (14)
- Molecular evolution of growth hormone and receptor in the guinea-pig, a mammal unresponsive to growth hormone. (2000) (14)
- Estimating evolutionary distances between DNA sequences. (1996) (13)
- Insulin-like growth factor II intron sequences support the hominoid rate-slowdown hypothesis. (1993) (13)
- Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of certain quadratic invariants under a phylogenetic tree. (1991) (12)
- Contrasting levels of DNA polymorphism at the autosomal and X-linked visual color pigment loci in humans and squirrel monkeys. (1998) (10)
- A rapid heuristic algorithm for finding minimum evolution trees. (2000) (4)
- Total number of individuals affected by a single sex-linked deleterious mutation in a finite population. (1973) (4)
- Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of linear invariants in phylogenetic inference. (1992) (4)
- Y-STR genetic screening by high-resolution melting analysis. (2016) (4)
- Supplemental Text (2008) (1)
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