Maximum likelihood estimation of ancestral codon usage bias parameters in Drosophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 228-235

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a,b   Bauer DuMont, Vanessa L ^c   Hubisz, Melissa J ^b   Aquadro, Charles F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology ^*  (Denmark)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Codon usage bias; Codon based models; Maximum likelihood; Selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CODON; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MUTATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA;

EID: 33845898825     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl146     Document Type: Article

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