Site-to-site variation of synonymous substitution rates

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2375-2385

  Pond, Sergei Kosakovsky ^a   Muse, Spencer V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon model; Model selection; Molecular evolution; Positive selection; Synonymous substitution rate

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 27844569825     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi232     Document Type: Article

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