Rates of Nucleotide Substitution Dan Graur * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In a comparison of 74 non-essential genes with 64 essential ones, the rate of ...
Molecular Phylogenetics Dan Graur * * Maximize the probability of observing the data of aligned sequences conditional on a particular tree structure by trying all ...
In molecular phylogenetics: A clade is a group of taxa under study that share a common ancestor, which is not shared by any other species outside the group.
... are identified in order of decreased similarity, and the tree is built in a ... composite OTU. 17. 18. 19. UPGMA works fine with ultrametric distances! ...
creation of a novel function from a redundant copy of an old ... Caudal vertebrae. 49. Vermiform appendix. Hind legs in cetaceans. 51. Dorudon atrox. 52 ...
Components of the Evolutionary Process in the Popular Press. 1. Gradualism. 2. Progress ... 18. Lamarckian. Devolution. 19. Evolution = Progress Gradualism ...
ancestor ... ancestor. descendant 1. descendant 2. Anagenesis = changes occurring along an ... A taxon whose common ancestor is shared by any other ...
Bioinformatics for Biologists * * Administrative stuff: Dr. Dan Graur dgraur@uh.edu Official TA: Nicholas Price Unofficial TAs: Yichen Zheng & Wenfu Li Science ...
mutation rates vary considerably among species. mutation rates ... some genes occur as highly repeated tandem arrays. What produces homogeneous tandem arrays ? ...
Concepts of partial gene duplication and gene shuffling become ... CLOT LYSIS. Plasmin: a serine protease (trypsin like) which specifically breaks down fibrin ...
Molecular Clocks Rose Hoberman The Holy Grail Fossil evidence is sparse and imprecise (or nonexistent) Given a phylogenetic tree branch lengths (rt) a time estimate ...
110 MYA. Can we date other nodes in the tree? Yes... e.g. RNA viruses have. error-prone polymerases. Repair ... e.g. root-to-tip distances must be equal ...
'All the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from ... Sensitivity to. chloramphenicol, streptomycin and. kanamycin Growth at 80 C ...
Assortative mating is very strong in humans even with respect to non ... Per definition, the initial frequency of a mutation in a diploid population is 1/2N. ...
ML for amino acids & codons. The world's best named simulation program ... Uses of PAML (iv): Codon substitution models & detection of selection in protein ...
Ampicillin. Tetracycline. Streak individual colonies with sterile toothpick. Incubate overnight. ... Ampicillin. Tetracycline. Q: Which colony is resistant to ...
Mutations can occur in either somatic or germline cells. ... Vole. Barn swallow. mutation rate. mutation rate. fitness. fitness. 44. Spatial Distribution ...
and Functional Genomics by Jonathan Pevsner Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. ... Was Darwin correct that humans are closest. to chimps and gorillas? ...
The hereditary information of all living organisms, with the exception of some ... the suffix P is used, e.g., CA5P for the -carbonic anhydrase pseudogene 5. ...
Puffer fish. Mouse. Human. Yeast. Fruit. Fly. HS DM. 1500. 990. 450. 90. HS ... In reference to: Mouse Puffer fish Fruit fly Yeast. Implied by this trend: ...
PAUP Phylip by Joe ... Sequence analysis course Author: pirovano Last modified by: heringa Created Date: 11/2/2005 9:49:40 AM Document presentation format: On ...
DATOS: Alineamiento de secuencias de genes ... Maximum likelihood or model ... clustering with the Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmatic Mean (UPGMA) ...
Evolution at the molecular level is radically different from evolution at the ... Darwin's theory reinterpreted homology as common ancestry. ATCGGCCACTTTCGCGATCA ...
A Fast Algorithm for Joint Reconstruction of Ancestral Amino Acid ... Raymond Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences. Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel ...
For example, if we start with a sequence made of adenines only, then PA(0) = 1, ... The expected frequency of A in the sequence at equilibrium will be 1/4, and so ...
... exons still may seem to be conserved in the rodent lineage due to short time ... obtain the number (fraction) of real rodent-specific exons (dark green) ...
... Stuart Stephen, W. James Kent, John S. Mattick, & David Haussler (Science 2004. ... First Name: John. Last name: Travolta. Course: Ballet 2001; Ballet 2002; ...
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Starting point: a set of homologous, aligned DNA or protein sequences ... Phylogenetic tree of the Bcl-2 family derived from the NJ method applied to PAM ...
Probability distribution of A allele in a population of 100 and random ... Allele frequencies among populations were summarized by principal components. ...
Molecular Evolution: Plan for week Monday 3.11: Basics of Molecular Evolution Lecture 1: 9-10.30 Molecular Basis and Models I (JH) Computer : 11-12.30 PAUP ...
Other stuff that happens in the brain: Social persuasion. Enthusiasm. Reading faces ... try to heal the sick. incest taboos. true distinguished from false ...
The most recent common ancestor of human and mouse lived about 75 million years ago. ... How many deaths are required to bring about a substitution? ...
... mutations, is that many mutations will have deleterious effects on fitness. ... 'Purifying selection' is a natural selection against deleterious mutations. ...
Molecular systematics is the study of various methods that can be used to ... Test 1 23/8 14:00. Test 2 20/9 14:00. Test 3 & Prac 11/10 14:00. Report 18/10 14:00 ...