Accuracies of ancestral amino acid sequences inferred by the parsimony, likelihood, and distance methods

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Zhang, Jianzhi ^a   Nei, Masatoshi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral protein sequences; Distance method; Likelihood method; Parsimony method

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS;

EID: 0031025677     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00000067     Document Type: Article

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