Variation in evolutionary processes at different codon positions

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 513-521

  Bofkin, Lee ^a   Goldman, Nick ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Codon positions; Phylogenetic inference; Protein coding sequences; Sequence evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 33846799228     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl178     Document Type: Article

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