Phylogenetic analysis in molecular evolutionary genetics

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1996, Pages 371-403

  Nei, Masatoshi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ancestral proteins; four cluster analysis; linearized trees; molecular phylogeny; tree building methods

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW;

DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS;

EID: 0030458552     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.30.1.371     Document Type: Review

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