Is the Fixation of Observable Mutations Distributed Randomly Among the Three Nucleotide Positions of the Codon?

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Journal J Mol Evol

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1973 Jan 1

PMID 4377770

Citations 15

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W M FITCH

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