Molecular evolution modeled as a fractal poisson process in agreement with mammalian sequence comparisons

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 967-977

  Bickel, David R ^a,b   West, Bruce J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic evolution; Fractal doubly stochastic Poisson process model; Mammalian nonsynonymous substitutions; Molecular clock; Neutral theory; Overdispersion

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

DARWINIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031904231     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026012     Document Type: Review

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