TY - JOUR
AU - Wilson, Allan C.
AB - Evolution, 33(2), 1979, pp. 734-740 RATES OF MOLECULAR AND CHROMOSOMAL EVOLUTION IN SALAMANDERS LINDA E. R. MAxSON AND ALLAN C. WILSON Departments of Genetics and Development, and Ecology, Ethology and Evolution, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, and Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Received June 19, 1978. Revised December 13, 1978 pared last shared a common ancestor. Changes in karyotype are receiving in­ creasing attention from evolutionary bi­ With this time, one can calculate an ap­ proximate minimum value for the mean ologists. This is in part because recent ob­ rate at which karyotypic differences have servations suggest that evolution at the arisen between the species compared. organismal level is correlated more highly Two methods of analyzing the biochem­ with karyotypic evolution than with struc­ ical data were used and both give results tural gene evolution (Wilson et al., 1974b, in approximate agreement with those ob­ 1975, 1977b; Prager et al., 1976; Bush et tained by the fossil-based method, con­ al., 1977). firming that karyotypic evolution in sala­ The salamander order Urodela is of in­ manders has been slower than in frogs and terest in this regard because, as has long very much slower than 
TI - RATES OF MOLECULAR AND CHROMOSOMAL EVOLUTION IN SALAMANDERS
JF - Evolution
DO - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1979.tb04725.x
DA - 1979-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/rates-of-molecular-and-chromosomal-evolution-in-salamanders-Ac2bWUp0bD
SP - 734
EP - 740
VL - 33
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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