Estimating the distribution of selection coefficients from phylogenetic data with applications to mitochondrial and viral DNA

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1231-1239

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a   Yang, Ziheng ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dN dS; Maximum likelihood; Mitochondrial DNA; Neutral theory; Positive selection; Selection coefficients

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CODING; CODON; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0042354654     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg147     Document Type: Article

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