Single-Locus Tests of Microsatellite Evolution: Multi-Step Mutations and Constraints on Allele Size

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 477-484

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a   Palsbøll, Per J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

constraints on allele size; Microsatellite evolution; multi step mutations; stepwise mutation model

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WHALE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; STATISTICS; WHALES;

EID: 0033111624     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1998.0597     Document Type: Article

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