Accounting for Evolutionary Rate Variation among Sequence Sites Consistently Changes Universal Phylogenies Deduced from rRNA and Protein-Coding Genes

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 159-168

  Tourasse, Nicolas J ^a   Gouy, Manolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Universal phylogeny; substitution rate variation among sites; evolutionary distance; maximum likelihood; Archaea; ribosomal RNA; long branch attraction.

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 0033210762     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0675     Document Type: Article

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