Subhash Mohan Agarwal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Published online: July 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0020802
Rapidly evolving genes are those genes that exhibit accelerated rates of nonsynonymous substitutions between species, i.e. the number of nonsynonymous substitutions per nonsynonymous site (amino acid altering) significantly exceeds the number of synonymous substitutions per synonymous site.
Keywords: rapid evolution; positive selection; synonymous substitution; reproductive proteins; nervous system and human accelerated region
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Figure 1. The type of methods used to detect the signatures of rapid evolution, functional categories of genes bearing evidence of action and the advantages of mapping rapid evolution.
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