On Gaps

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 132-143

  Giribet, Gonzalo ^a   Wheeler, Ward C ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaps; sequence alignments; phylogenetic analysis; character congruence; parsimony; maximum likelihood.

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA;

ANIMAL; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0033208692     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0643     Document Type: Article

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