Difficulties in testing for covarion-like properties of sequences under the confounding influence of changing proportions of variable sites

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1512-1520

  Gruenheit, Nicole ^a   Lockhart, Peter J ^b   Steel, Mike ^c   Martin, William ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chloroplast proteins; Contingency test; Covarion; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; SIMULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS;

EID: 45849119373     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn098     Document Type: Article

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