Approximate methods for estimating the pattern of nucleotide substitution and the variation of substitution rates among sites

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 650-659

  Yang, Ziheng ^a,b   Kumar, Sudhir ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

generalized sequence distance; likelihood; Markov models; molecular evolution; pairwise comparison; parsimony; rate variation among sites; reversibility; substitution pattern

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029892459     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025625     Document Type: Article

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