Mitochondrial genes and mammalian phylogenies: Increasing the reliability of branch length estimation

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 224-234

  Corneli, Patrice Showers ^a   Ward, Ryk H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Branch length estimates; Complete mitochondrial genome; Mammalian phylogeny; Maximum likelihood; MtDNA protein coding genes

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RAT; RELIABILITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033959807     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026302     Document Type: Article

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