BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Correlates of substitution rate variation in mammalian protein-coding sequences

John J Welch1,2*, Olaf RP Bininda-Emonds3 and Lindell Bromham2,4

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1 Institute of Evolutionary Biology; School of Biological Sciences; University of Edinburgh, West Mains Rd., Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK

2 Centre for the Study of Evolution; School of Life Sciences; University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK

3 Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Erbertstrasse 1, 07743 Jena, Germany

4 Centre for Macroevolution and Macroecology; School of Botany and Zoology; Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:53 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-53

Published: 19 February 2008

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Data Supplement. Spreadsheet of GenBank accession numbers, life history data, and details of phylogenetically independent species pairs.

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