Failure to differentiate between divergence of species and their genes can result in over-estimation of mutation rates in recently diverged species

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Animal Science, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA iksaglam@ucdavis.edu.
• ² Ecological Sciences Research Laboratories, Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, 06800, Ankara, Turkey.
• ³ Department of Animal Science, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
• ⁴ Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Animal Science, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA micmiller@ucdavis.edu.