Recombination in evolutionary genomics

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2002, Pages 75-97

  Posada, David ^a,b   Crandall, Keith A ^c   Holmes, Edward C ^d  

^a Variagenics   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Incongruence; Linkage disequilibrium; Maximum likelihood; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0036948655     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.36.040202.111115     Document Type: Review

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