Observations of amino acid gain and loss during protein evolution are explained by statistical bias

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1444-1449

  Goldstein, Richard A ^a   Pollock, David D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid bias; Ancestral reconstruction; Molecular evolution; Parsimony

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXON;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEINS;

EID: 33745600093     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl010     Document Type: Article

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