An index of substitution saturation and its application

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-7

  Xia, Xuhua ^a,d   Xie, Zheng ^b   Salemi, Marco ^c   Chen, Lu ^d   Wang, Yong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

DAMBE; Entropy; Phylogenetic signal; Substitution saturation; Topology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARTHROPODA; OTUS;

EID: 0037214757     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00326-3     Document Type: Article

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