Estimating the Total Number of Nucleotide Substitutions Since the Common Ancestor of a Pair of Homologous Genes: Comparison of Several Methods and Three Beta Hemoglobin Messenger RNA's

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Journal J Mol Evol

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1980 Dec 1

PMID 7009879

Citations 36

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W M FITCH

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