Tracing the decay of the historical signal in biological sequence data

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 623-637

  Ho, Simon Y W ^a,b   Jermiin, Lars S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compositional heterogeneity; Edge lengths; Monte Carlo simulation; Networks; Phylogenetic signal; Rate heterogeneity; Substitutional saturation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 4644252702     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490503035     Document Type: Article

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