Adjusting for selection on synonymous sites in estimates of evolutionary distance

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 174-177

  Hirsh, Aaron E ^a   Fraser, Hunter B ^b   Wall, Dennis P ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; dN dS; dS; Evolutionary genomics; Selection; Synonymous sites

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES; SILENT GENE;

DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; SACCHAROMYCES; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

SACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 10344224528     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh265     Document Type: Article

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