Evaluation of an improved branch-site likelihood method for detecting positive selection at the molecular level

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2472-2479

  Zhang, Jianzhi ^a   Nielsen, Rasmus ^b   Yang, Ziheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branch site model; Computer simulation; Likelihood ratio test; Positive selection

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 27844439855     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi237     Document Type: Article

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