Identifying site-specific substitution rates

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 182-189

  Meyer, Sonja ^a   Von Haeseler, Arndt ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human mitochondrial DNA; Maximum likelihood; Sequence evolution; Site specific substitution rates; Tree reconstruction

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION;

EID: 0037329091     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg019     Document Type: Article

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