Silent evolution

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Abstract

Phylogenetic analyses using mitochondrial DNA sequences of several kinds of beetles have shown that their evolution included a silent stage in which no morphological changes took place. We thus propose a new category of evolutionary process called "silent evolution".

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Osawa, S., Su, Z. H., Nishikawa, M., & Tominaga, O. (2016). Silent evolution. Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences, 92(9), 455–461. https://doi.org/10.2183/pjab.92.455

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