Big and Slow: Phylogenetic estimates of molecular evolution in baleen whales (Suborder Mysticeti).
Published in a leading journal of molecular evolutionary, this article presents the largest databases available to date of mitochondrial and nuclear intron sequences to estimate the ‘neutral’ rate of molecular evolution in the largest species of animals ever to have lived, the baleen whales. The res...
| Published in: | Molecular Biology and Evolution |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Oxford University Press; The Authors; The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2292/16387 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msp169 |
| Summary: | Published in a leading journal of molecular evolutionary, this article presents the largest databases available to date of mitochondrial and nuclear intron sequences to estimate the ‘neutral’ rate of molecular evolution in the largest species of animals ever to have lived, the baleen whales. The results demonstrated, the despite the rapid morphological divergence of whales from their a terrestrial ancestors, their underlying rate of molecular evolution is the lowest measured for any mammal. Times Cited: 12 (from Web of Science). I initiated the study with a grant from the Marsden Fund and directed the laboratory analyses and assembly of the sequence database. I supervised the first author, my postdoctoral fellow, and assisted in writing the manuscript. |
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