Correlation between the substitution rate and rate variation among sites in protein evolution

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1615-1625

  Zhang, Jianzhi ^a   Gu, Xun ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; PROTEINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME; VARIATION (GENETICS); VERTEBRATES;

DARWINIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031876602     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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