Published in Mol Biol Evol on August 06, 2009
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The role of historical and contemporary processes on phylogeographic structure and genetic diversity in the Northern Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis. BMC Evol Biol (2011) 0.80
Species-specific duplications driving the recent expansion of NBS-LRR genes in five Rosaceae species. BMC Genomics (2015) 0.80
Land-bridge calibration of molecular clocks and the post-glacial Colonization of Scandinavia by the Eurasian field vole Microtus agrestis. PLoS One (2014) 0.80
Rapid evolution of chemosensory receptor genes in a pair of sibling species of orchid bees (Apidae: Euglossini). BMC Evol Biol (2015) 0.77
Detecting selection on protein stability through statistical mechanical models of folding and evolution. Biomolecules (2014) 0.76
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Postglacial recolonization of eastern Blacknose Dace,Rhinichthys atratulus(Teleostei: Cyprinidae), through the gateway of New England. Ecol Evol (2011) 0.75
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The distribution of fitness effects of new deleterious amino acid mutations in humans. Genetics (2006) 3.63
Rates of evolution in ancient DNA from Adélie penguins. Science (2002) 3.13
Calibrating the avian molecular clock. Mol Ecol (2008) 2.90
Age of cichlids: new dates for ancient lake fish radiations. Mol Biol Evol (2007) 2.50
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The pedigree rate of sequence divergence in the human mitochondrial genome: there is a difference between phylogenetic and pedigree rates. Am J Hum Genet (2003) 2.23
Characterizing the time dependency of human mitochondrial DNA mutation rate estimates. Mol Biol Evol (2008) 1.53
Geological dates and molecular rates: fish DNA sheds light on time dependency. Mol Biol Evol (2008) 1.45
Evolutionary biology: relativity for molecular clocks. Nature (2005) 1.38
Alarm bells for the molecular clock? No support for Ho et al.'s model of time-dependent molecular rate estimates. Syst Biol (2007) 1.32
Geological dates and molecular rates: rapid divergence of rivers and their biotas. Syst Biol (2007) 1.20
A mitochondrial cytochrome B phylogeny of the Alectoris partridges. Mol Phylogenet Evol (1996) 1.01
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The evolution of bet-hedging adaptations to rare scenarios. Theor Popul Biol (2007) 1.43
The spontaneous appearance rate of the yeast prion [PSI+] and its implications for the evolution of the evolvability properties of the [PSI+] system. Genetics (2009) 1.31
Putatively noncoding transcripts show extensive association with ribosomes. Genome Biol Evol (2011) 1.28
The roles of mutation accumulation and selection in loss of sporulation in experimental populations of Bacillus subtilis. Genetics (2007) 1.27
The conversion of 3' UTRs into coding regions. Mol Biol Evol (2006) 1.24
Evolution of molecular error rates and the consequences for evolvability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.23
Complex adaptations can drive the evolution of the capacitor [PSI], even with realistic rates of yeast sex. PLoS Genet (2009) 1.15
The population genetics of phenotypic deterioration in experimental populations of Bacillus subtilis. Evolution (2006) 1.15
The evolution of reversible switches in the presence of irreversible mimics. Evolution (2009) 0.95
Compensatory evolution and the origins of innovations. Genetics (2013) 0.83
Hsp90 depletion goes wild. BMC Biol (2012) 0.82
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Cryptic genetic variation can make "irreducible complexity" a common mode of adaptation in sexual populations. Evolution (2014) 0.75
Chance, purpose, and progress in evolution and christianity. Evolution (2014) 0.75