Estimation of the transition/transversion rate bias and species sampling

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 274-283

  Yang, Ziheng ^a   Yoder, Anne D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lemurs; Maximum likelihood; Primates; Saturation; Species sampling; Transition transversion rate ratio

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANTHROPOIDEA; LEMURIDAE; LEMURIFORMES; LORIIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0033004740     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006470     Document Type: Article

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