A simple hierarchical approach to modeling distributions of substitution rates

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-234

  Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L ^a   Frost, Simon D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Hepatitis C; Hierarchical model; Model selection; Parallel algorithms; Substitution rates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEPACIVIRUS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 12344314451     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi009     Document Type: Article

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