REFERENCE LIST
COI Genes - Rates of Evolution

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Andrews DT, Easteal S 2000. Evolutionary rate acceleration of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I in simian primates. Journal of Molecular Evolution 50: 562-568

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Barrientos A, Muller S, Dey R, Wienberg J, Moraes CT 2000. Cytochrome c oxidase assembly in primates is sensitive to small evolutionary variations in amino acid sequence. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17: 1508-1519

Caccone A, Powell JR 1990. Extreme rates and heterogeneity in insect DNA evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution 30: 273-280

Gingerich PD 2001. Rates of evolution on the time scale of the evolutionary process. Genetica 112-113: 127-144

Grossman LI, Schmidt TR, Wildman DE, Goodman M 2001. Molecular evolution of aerobic energy metabolism in primates. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18: 26-36

Knowlton N, Weigt LA 1998. New dates and new rates for divergence across the Isthmus of Panama. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 265: 2257-2263

Marko PB 2002. Fossil calibration of molecular clocks and the divergence times of geminate species pairs separated by the Isthmus of Panama. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19: 2005-2021

McClellan DA 2000. The codon-degeneracy model of molecular evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution 50: 131-140

Omilian AR, Taylor DJ 2001. Rate acceleration and long-branch attraction in a conserved gene of cryptic daphniid (crustacea) species. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18: 2201-2212

Perna NT, Kocher TD 1995. Patterns of nucleotide composition at fourfold degenerate sites of animal mitochondrial genomes. Journal of Molecular Evolution 41: 353-358

Schmidt TR, Goodman M, Grossman LI 2002. Amino acid replacement is rapid in primates for the mature polypeptides of COX subunits, but not for their targeting presequences. Gene 286: 13-19

Schmidt TR, Jaradat SA, Goodman M, Lomax MI, Grossman LI 1997. Molecular evolution of cytochrome c oxidase: rate variation among subunit VIa isoforms. Molecualr Biology and Evolution 14: 595-601

Schmidt TR, Wu W, Goodman M, Grossman LI 2001. Evolution of nuclear- and mitochondrial-encoded subunit interaction in cytochrome c oxidase. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18: 563-569

Singer GAC, Hickey DA 2000. Nucleotide bias causes a genomewide bias in the amino acid composition of proteins. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17: 1581-1588

Strauss E 1999. Can mitochondrial clocks keep time? Science 283: 1435-1438

Wu W, Schmidt TR, Goodman M, Grossman LI 2000. Molecular evolution of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I in primates: is there coevolution between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17: 294-304

Yi S, Ellsworth DL, Li WH 2002. Slow molecular clocks in old world monkeys, apes and humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19: 2191-2198