Examining rates and patterns of nucleotide substitution in plants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-43

  Muse, Spencer V ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast genes; Maximum likelihood; Molecular clocks; Nucleotide substitution models; Rates of molecular evolution

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033955649     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006319803002     Document Type: Article

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