Weak preservation of local neutral substitution rates across mammalian genomes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The rate at which neutral (non-functional) bases undergo substitution is highly dependent on their location within a genome. However, it is not clear how fast these location-dependent rates change, or to what extent the substitution...

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Main Authors: Karro John E, Imamura Hideo, Chuang Jeffrey H
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-05-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/89