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Martin Kreitman

Researcher at University of Chicago

Publications -  111
Citations -  18245

Martin Kreitman is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Locus (genetics) & Gene. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 111 publications receiving 17587 citations. Previous affiliations of Martin Kreitman include Princeton University & National Institutes of Health.

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Adaptive protein evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila

TL;DR: A simple statistical test of the neutral protein evolution hypothesis is proposed based on a comparison of the number of amino-acid replacement substitutions to synonymous substitutions in the coding region of a locus, finding that there are more fixed replacement differences between species than expected.
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A Test of Neutral Molecular Evolution Based on Nucleotide Data

TL;DR: A conservative statistical test of the neutral theory of molecular evolution's prediction that regions of the genome that evolve at high rates, as revealed by interspecific DNA sequence comparisons, will also exhibit high levels of polymorphism within species is presented.
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Fitness costs of R-gene-mediated resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana.

TL;DR: Results of a field experiment comparing the fitness of isogenic strains that differ in the presence or absence of RPM1 and its natural promoter reveal a large cost ofrpm1, providing the first evidence that costs contribute to the maintenance of an ancient R-gene polymorphism.
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Nucleotide polymorphism at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of Drosophila melanogaster

TL;DR: The sequencing of eleven cloned Drosophila melanogaster alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) genes from five natural populations has revealed a large number of previously hidden polymorphisms, but only one of the 43 polymorphisms results in an amino acid change.