A novel method distinguishes between mutation rates and fixation biases in patterns of single-nucleotide substitution

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 168-175

  Lipatov, Mikhail ^a   Arndt, Peter F ^b   Hwa, Terence ^c   Petrov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased gene conversion; GC content; Genome evolution; Mutation; Selection; Single nucleotide substitutions; Transitions; Transversions

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BASE COMPOSITION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; ISOCHORES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33644864705     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0207-z     Document Type: Article

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