Construction of evolutionary distance trees with treecon for windows: Accounting for variation in nucieotide substitution rate among sites

Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 227-230

  Van de Peer, Yves ^a   De Wachter, Rupert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0030965346     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/13.3.227     Document Type: Article

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