Fractional-difference stochastic model of evolutionary substitutions in DNA sequences

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 256, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 188-196

  West, Bruce J ^a   Bickel, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DIFFERENCE MODELS; EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS; FANO FACTOR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SUBSTITUTION; POWER-LAW; PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM; RANDOM WALK MODELING;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 0000111422     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00214-5     Document Type: Article

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