Modeling the covarion hypothesis of nucleotide substitution

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-91

  Tuffley, Chris ^a   Steel, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; TREE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MATHEMATICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MARKOV CHAINS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031986279     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(97)00081-3     Document Type: Article

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