Synonymous substitutions substantially improve evolutionary inference from highly diverged proteins

Systematic Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 367-377

  Seo, Tae Kun ^a   Kishino, Hirohisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid model; Codon model; Likelihood ratio test; Model comparison; Synonymous saturation

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 45849146965     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150802158670     Document Type: Article

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