The rate of evolutionary change associated with a character determines its utility for the reconstruction of phylogenetic history. For a given age of lineage splits, we examine the information content of a character to assess the magnitude and range of an optimal rate of substitution. On the one han
Predictions of the Dynamics of a Polygenic Character Under Directional Selection
✍ Scribed by Reinhard Bürger
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 863 KB
- Volume
- 162
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5193
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