Genome-wide analysis of sequence divergence patterns in 12 024 human–mouse orthologous pairs reveals

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- Reverse Polarization in Amino acid and Nucleotide Substitution Patterns Between Human–Mouse Orthologs of Two Compositional Extrema

  
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