Power analysis of tests for loss of selective constraint in cave crayfish and nonphotosynthetic plant lineages

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1292-1302

  Leebens Mack, Jim ^a,b   De Pamphilis, Claude ^b  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crayfish; Likelihood ratio test; Molecular evolution; Opsin; Orobanchaceae; RbcL; Rhodopsin; Scrophulariaceae; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; PLANT DNA; RBCL PROTEIN, PLASTID; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CRAYFISH; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ASTACOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; OROBANCHACEAE; SCROPHULARIACEAE;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; OPSIN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0036667690     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004190     Document Type: Article

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