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The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

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The ‘effective number of codons’ used in a gene

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The neutral theory of molecular evolution

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Evidence for higher rates of nucleotide substitution in rodents than in man.

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Phylogenetic test of the molecular clock and linearized trees.

1995 • 837 citations

Progress and Prospects in Evolutionary Biology: The Drosophila Model

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Historical Biogeography of the Drosophila melanogaster Species Subgroup

1988 • 624 citations

The transposable elements of the Drosophila melanogaster euchromatin: a genomics perspective

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Mutation rates in mammalian genomes

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Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of drosophilid species.

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"Silent" sites in Drosophila genes are not neutral: evidence of selection among synonymous codons.

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The Phylogeny, Ecology, and Geography of Drosophila

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Molecular evolution inDrosophila and the higher diptera

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On the rate of DNA sequence evolution inDrosophila

1989 • 300 citations

Genomic clocks and evolutionary timescales

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High rate of DNA loss in the Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila virilis species groups

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Disparity Index: A Simple Statistic to Measure and Test the Homogeneity of Substitution Patterns Between Molecular Sequences

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Analysis of Conserved Noncoding DNA inDrosophilaReveals Similar Constraints in Intergenic and Intronic Sequences

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Codon usage bias and base composition of nuclear genes in Drosophila.

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Assessing the impact of comparative genomic sequence data on the functional annotation of the Drosophilagenome

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Positive Selection Drives the Evolution of the Acp29AB Accessory Gland Protein in Drosophila

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Horizontal Transfer and Selection in the Evolution of P Elements

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Substitution Rates in Drosophila Nuclear Genes: Implications for Translational Selection

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Comparative evolutionary rates of introns and exons in murine rodents

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Phylogeny of the Subgenus Sophophora (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Based on Combined Analysis of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Sequences

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Erratic overdispersion of three molecular clocks: GPDH, SOD, and XDH

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Rates of DNA change and phylogeny from the DNA sequences of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene for five closely related species of Hawaiian Drosophila.

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On the Evolution of Dopa decarboxylase (Ddc) and Drosophila Systematics

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Historical Selection, Amino Acid Polymorphism and Lineage-Specific Divergence at the G6pd Locus in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans

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Phylogenetic Utility of Mitochondrial COI and Nuclear Gpdh Genes in Drosophila

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Phylogenetic relationships in Drosophila: a conflict between molecular and morphological data.

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Switch in Codon Bias and Increased Rates of Amino Acid Substitution in the Drosophila saltans Species Group

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Fluctuating Mutation Bias and the Evolution of Base Composition in Drosophila

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