When is it safe to use an oversimplified substitution model in tree- making?

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1255-1265

  Rzhetsky, Andrey ^a   Sitnikova, Tatyana ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

molecular clock; Monte Carlo simulation; p distance; tree topology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0029907256     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025691     Document Type: Article

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