Martin Kreitman

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Martin Kreitman by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Evolutionary biologist who, with John H. McDonald, developed a comparison of within-species variation and between-species divergence to test neutral evolution. Their 1991 study compared synonymous and amino acid-changing differences at the alcohol-dehydrogenase locus in Drosophila, finding an excess of fixed amino acid changes consistent with natural selection.[ref]

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