What is it about?
This paper presents a model of molecular evolution that is episodic enough to agree with the theory of punctuated equilibrium. While that theory was motivated by the fossil record, the model of molecular evolution was motivated by DNA sequence data.
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Why is it important?
The proposed fractional-difference model of molecular evolution is based on a mathematical device called a shift operator.
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This paper resulted from my PhD research supervised by Bruce West. For others, follow the "Related papers" link.
David R. Bickel
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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This page is a summary of: Fractional-difference stochastic model of evolutionary substitutions in DNA sequences, Physics Letters A, May 1999, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9601(99)00214-5.
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