A novel method for estimating substitution rate variation among sites in a large dataset of homologous DNA sequences

Genetics

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 859-865

  Pesole, Graziano ^a   Saccone, Cecilia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035108825     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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