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Silent evolution

Phylogenetic analyses using mitochondrial DNA sequences of several kinds of beetles have shown that their evolution included a silent stage in which no morphological changes took place. We thus propose a new category of evolutionary process called “silent evolution”.

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Autores principales: OSAWA, Syozo, SU, Zhi-Hui, NISHIKAWA, Masaaki, TOMINAGA, Osamu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japan Academy 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5328790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27840392
http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.92.455
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author OSAWA, Syozo
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TOMINAGA, Osamu
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description Phylogenetic analyses using mitochondrial DNA sequences of several kinds of beetles have shown that their evolution included a silent stage in which no morphological changes took place. We thus propose a new category of evolutionary process called “silent evolution”.
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spelling pubmed-53287902017-03-21 Silent evolution OSAWA, Syozo SU, Zhi-Hui NISHIKAWA, Masaaki TOMINAGA, Osamu Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci Original Article Phylogenetic analyses using mitochondrial DNA sequences of several kinds of beetles have shown that their evolution included a silent stage in which no morphological changes took place. We thus propose a new category of evolutionary process called “silent evolution”. The Japan Academy 2016-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5328790/ /pubmed/27840392 http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.92.455 Text en © 2016 The Japan Academy This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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OSAWA, Syozo
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NISHIKAWA, Masaaki
TOMINAGA, Osamu
Silent evolution
title Silent evolution
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title_full_unstemmed Silent evolution
title_short Silent evolution
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topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5328790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27840392
http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.92.455
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