Identifiability of a Markovian model of molecular evolution with gamma-distributed rates

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 229-249

  Allman, Elizabeth S ^a   Ané, Cécile ^b   Rhodes, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Identifiability; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GAMMA-DISTRIBUTED RATES; GENERAL PARAMETRIC MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENETICS;

BIOMOLECULES;

EID: 44649144588     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1208358894     Document Type: Article

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