Genome Evolution Course - 2009
The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
Topics
- The Mouse Genome
- The panselectionist
view of molecular evolution
- 1968 - Kimura publishes his
cost of selection argument for neutral molecular evolution
- The rates of molecular
evolution
- The inverse relationship
between the importance of a protein or site within a protein and its rate
of evolution.
- Preponderance of
synonymous mutations
- Calculating synonymous
and nonsynonymous rates
- Protein polymorphism as a
phase of molecular evolution
Suggested readings
Assignment
Back to the Genome
Evolution Course.
Itai Yanai, yanai@technion.ac.il