Factors affecting the errors in the estimation of evolutionary distances between sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Hoyle, D C ^a   Higgs, P G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Distance matrix; Evolutionary distances; Maximum likelihood; Molecular phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037226827     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004230     Document Type: Article

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