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+[[!meta title="Comparative evolutionary analysis of rDNA ITS regions in Drosophila."]]
+[[!tag Drosophila ribosome]]
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+Schlötterer C, Hauser MT, von Haeseler A, Tautz D.
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+Mol Biol Evol. 1994 May;11(3):513-22. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040131
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+Comparative evolutionary analysis of rDNA ITS regions in Drosophila.
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+[[!pmid 8015444 desc="Average substitution rate of 1.2% per million year."]]
diverged 24.9 +/- 2.88 My ago, based on the assumption that D. picticornis and
D. silvestris diverged 5.1 My ago.
+The ITS2 sequence of Drosophila species diverged at the speed of 1.2 % per million
+year ([[Schlötterer and coll., 1994|biblio/8015444]]).
+
See also [[Muller elements|muller_element]].
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