A Test of Neutrality and Constant Population Size Based on the Mismatch Distribution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 724-731

  Mousset, Sylvain ^a   Derome, Nicolas ^b   Veuille, Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Demography; DNA polymorphism; Mismatch distribution; Neutrality test; Selective sweep

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 1842557437     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh066     Document Type: Article

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