Generally, the more silent mutations two species have in common, the more closely related they are. (discovermagazine.com)
His prediction: More researchers will start listening to what silent mutations have to say. (sciencemag.org)
But every once in a while, data crop up that don't make sense; for example, a gene called multidrug resistance - 1 (MDR - 1) has been found to frequently have a particular silent mutation in human cancer cells. (sciencemag.org)