Converting amino acid alignment scores into measures of evolutionary time: A simulation study of various relationships

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 361-370

  Feng, Da Fei ^a   Doolittle, Russell F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment scores; Distance measures; Substitution tables

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIHYDROOROTATE OXIDASE; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; MUTATION; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; PHYLOGENY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIME; TRIOSE-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

EID: 0030932280     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006155     Document Type: Article

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