Heterogeneity of nucleotide frequencies among evolutionary lineages and phylogenetic inference

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 610-621

  Rosenberg, Michael S ^a   Kumar, Sudhir ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous nucleotide composition; LogDet distances; Nonstationarity; Phylogenetic inference; Taxon sampling

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; TAXON;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037387372     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg067     Document Type: Article

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