[Molecular-evolution] Re: ribosomal genes

[Peter Ellis]

> "Des Higgins" <dazzhiggins at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  The possible mechanisms that allow concerted evolution include unequal 
> crossing over
>  (you have tandem repeats that match up incorrectly at meiosis; these swap 
> between
>  chromosomes and some are gained and some lost; this repeated sampling 
> creates
>  uniformity over time) and gene conversion (transcript of one gene 
> "corrects" the sequence
>  of another).

And how exact are these?  Any idea what percentage sequence variance, if 
any, would you expect in the ribosomal sequences within a single individual?

Peter