Why the rate of silent codon substitutions is variable within a vertebrate's genome

CpG-rich islands and the function of DNA methylation

1986 • 3,760 citations

Evolutionary Rate at the Molecular Level

1968 • 3,608 citations

CpG Islands in vertebrate genomes

1987 • 3,315 citations

Evolutionary Divergence and Convergence in Proteins

1965 • 2,780 citations

Human Genetics. Problems and Approaches.

1980 • 1,010 citations

The Mosaic Genome of Warm-Blooded Vertebrates

1985 • 887 citations

Evolving Genes and Proteins

1965 • 802 citations

Rates of DNA Sequence Evolution Differ Between Taxonomic Groups

1986 • 793 citations

Correlation Between Deoxyribonucleic Acid Excision-Repair and Life-Span in a Number of Mammalian Species

1974 • 738 citations

Fitting the Gene Lineage into its Species Lineage, a Parsimony Strategy Illustrated by Cladograms Constructed from Globin Sequences

1979 • 577 citations

Replication Timing of Genes and Middle Repetitive Sequences

1984 • 561 citations

The molecular clock runs more slowly in man than in apes and monkeys

1987 • 383 citations

Fitting the Gene Lineage into its Species Lineage, a Parsimony Strategy Illustrated by Cladograms Constructed from Globin Sequences

1979 • 375 citations

MECHANISMS OF CHROMOSOME BANDING AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE

1978 • 319 citations

Heterogeneous DNA damage and repair in the mammalian genome.

1987 • 274 citations

Diversity in G+C content at the third position of codons in vertebrate genes and its cause

1986 • 196 citations

Purification and characterization of two new high molecular weight forms of DNA polymerase .delta.

1986 • 153 citations

Molecular Anthropology

1976 • 118 citations

DNA-DNA hybridization evidence of the rapid rate of muroid rodent DNA evolution.

1987 • 117 citations

Correlation between molecular clock ticking, codon usage, fidelity of DNA repair, chromosome banding and chromatin compactness in germline cells

1987 • 102 citations

Human Genetics. Problems and Approaches

1981 • 97 citations

Amino acid sequence versus morphological data and the interordinal relationships of mammals.

1987 • 79 citations

Increased G+C content of DNA stabilises methyl CpG dinucieotides

1984 • 37 citations

Molecular evolution of rodent insulins.

1987 • 37 citations

Evolutionary Rates in Proteins: Neutral Mutations and the Molecular Clock

1976 • 31 citations

Two Distinct Compositional Classes of Vertebrate Gene-Bearing DNA Stretches, Their Structures and Possible Evolutionary Origin

1987 • 23 citations

Mutation and Molecular Evolution

1976 • 20 citations

Co‐evolution of base composition and codon usage in Xenopus laevis and human globin genes with long‐range DNA organization of their genome

1987 • 5 citations