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The use of DNA structural information to probe the evolutionary relationships between organisms is based on the variability of these structures with time. The explosion in the ability to extract DNA structural information from a variety of organisms has permitted inferences with respect to the type and tempo of these variations. One form of structural variation, the point mutation, is that which involves the substitution of one nucleotide for another. Point mutations, although common, are not the exclusive means by which DNA structures diverge. An important area of modern molecular biology deals exactly with these more drastic changes in DNA structure, those due to recombinatorial events including gene duplications, transpositions, deletions and insertions of genetic information. A complete description of the time-related divergence of DNA structures in various organisms must account for all forms of DNA structural variability.
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Cedergren, R., Abel, Y., Sankoff, D. (1991). Evaluating Gene Versus Genome Evolution. In: Hewitt, G.M., Johnston, A.W.B., Young, J.P.W. (eds) Molecular Techniques in Taxonomy. NATO ASI Series, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83962-7_6
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