Estimating synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates under realistic evolutionary models

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 32-43

  Yang, Ziheng ^a   Nielsen, Rasmus ^a  

^a Department of Biology ^*

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Approximate methods; Maximum likelihood; Molecular evolution; Nonsynonymous rate; Positive selection; Synonymous rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

EID: 0033979433     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026236     Document Type: Article

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