The influence of neighboring base composition on substitutions in plant chioroplast coding sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 189-194

  Morton, Brian R ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

molecular evolution; ndhF; neighboring base effects; nucleotide substitution; phylogenetic reconstruction; rbcL

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031047088     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025752     Document Type: Article

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