Testing for adaptive evolution of the female reproductive protein ZPC in mammals, birds and fishes reveals problems with the M7-M8 likelihood ratio test

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Berlin, Sofia ^a,b   Smith, Nick G C ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; BIAS (BIRD); MAMMALIA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

CODON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN; ZPC PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; ZEBRA FISH;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FISHES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 28744452463     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-65     Document Type: Article

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