Testing a covariotide model of DNA substitution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 698-707

  Huelsenbeck, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Covarion covariotide model; Integrated likelihood; Likelihood ratio; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood; Mixed chi square

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CODON; COVARIANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0036097894     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004128     Document Type: Article

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