Research interests: The biology of pregnancy, Evolution of genes X environment interactions, Mammalian phylogenetics, Rates of
nucleotide sequence evolution, The evolution of the brain, Primate evolutionary genetics
Not exact matches
The specific
sequence of
nucleotides determines the various kinds of life that appear in
evolution.
There is no such «direct»
evolution: animals, bacteria, and algae have a common ancestor from which they have diverged, as can be shown by aligning and comparing amino acid
sequences of proteins and
nucleotide sequences of homologous ribosomal RNA molecules that are found in both bacteria and vertebrates.
Nucleotide positions 2 through 8 of the mature
sequence (the «seed») are strongly conserved through
evolution, as are positions 13 - 16 (the 3» complementary region)(6, 11).
Topics include neutral theory of molecular
evolution, rates and patterns of change in
nucleotide sequences and proteins, molecular phylogenetics, and genome
evolution.