Estimating absolute rates of synonymous and nonsynonymous nucleotide substitution in order to characterize natural selection and date species divergences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1201-1213

  Seo, Tae Kun ^a   Kishino, Hirohisa ^b   Thorne, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayesian method; Evolutionary rate; Lognormal; Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); Nonsynonymous rate; Rate change model; Selection; Synonymous rate

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE I; NUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHRONOLOGY; CODON; DNA MODIFICATION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEOTIDE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIMATE; PROBABILITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PRIMATES;

EID: 3042548848     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh088     Document Type: Article

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