Evidence from nuclear sequences that invariable sites should be considered when sequence divergence is calculated.

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Published in Mol Biol Evol on May 01, 1989

Authors

J S Shoemaker1, W M Fitch

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1: Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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