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Neutral theory of molecular evolutionEvolutionary biologyBiologyGeneticsGene
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- 241
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- 98-126
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Makoto Kimura
(1979).
The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution.
Scientific American
, 241
(5)
, 98-126.
https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1179-98
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- 10.1038/scientificamerican1179-98