Testing substitution models within a phylogenetic tree

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 572-578

  Weiss, Gunter ^a,b   Von Haeselert, Arndt ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sequence evolution; Substitution models; Test for homogeneity; Tree reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COVARIANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PRIMATES;

EID: 0037388876     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg073     Document Type: Article

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