Sensitivity of patterns of molecular evolution to alterations in methodology: A critique of hughes and yeager

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 493-500

  Smith, Nick G C ^a   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a Material and Chemical Characterization Facility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GC composition; Intron evolution; Substitution rate estimation; Synonymous and nonsynonymous correlation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EXON; GENETIC DISTANCE; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEINS; RATS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

RODENTIA;

EID: 0031697167     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013151     Document Type: Article

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