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Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling, "Evolutionary Divergence and Convergence in Proteins," in Evolving Genes and Proteins, eds. V. Bryson and H. Vogel (New York: Academic Press, 1965). pp. 97-166. Comparing Hemoglobin Sequences. “There may thus exist a Molecular Evolutionary Clock”
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Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling, "Evolutionary Divergence and Convergence in Proteins," in Evolving Genes and Proteins, eds. V. Bryson and H. Vogel (New York: Academic Press, 1965). pp. 97-166. Comparing Hemoglobin Sequences
“There may thus exist a Molecular Evolutionary Clock” Zuckerkandl & Pauling (1965) Clock for paralogs Divergegence between alpha and beta Divergegence between beta and gamma A model of sequence divergence can be used to extract the duplication dates of the difference hemoglobin chains
“There may thus exist a Molecular Evolutionary Clock” Zuckerkandl & Pauling (1965)
Different ortholog clocks keep different times PBS Evolution Library (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/)
Different proteins evolve at different rates Most recent common ancestor between Man-horse Rate of change: AA changes per site per year
Neighbor Joining distance matrices