A Priori Estimation of Phylogenetic Information Conserved in Aligned Sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 358-365

  Wägele, Johann Wolfgang ^a   Rödding, Friederike ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032087278     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1998.0501     Document Type: Article

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