Searching for Substitution Rate Heterogeneity

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 64-71

  Hartmann, Marike ^a   Golding, G Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031991130     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1997.0446     Document Type: Article

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