Rates of nucleotide substitution and mammalian nuclear gene evolution: Approximate and maximum-likelihood methods lead to diffferent conclusions

Genetics

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1299-1308

  Bielawski, J P ^a   Dunn, K A ^a   Yang, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENOME; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TIME;

ARTIODACTYLA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033762460     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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