Estimating the rate of molecular evolution: Incorporating non-contemporaneous sequences into maximum likelihood phylogenies

Bioinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 395-399

  Rambaut, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DENGUE VIRUS; INTERNET; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA VIRUS;

DENGUE VIRUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0034044313     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/16.4.395     Document Type: Article

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