Estimation of hominoid ancestral population sizes under Bayesian coalescent models incorporating mutation rate variation and sequencing errors

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1979-1994

  Burgess, Ralph ^a,b   Yang, Ziheng ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ancestral population size; Bayesian inference; Coalescent model; Hominoid; MCMC; Sequencing errors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; GORILLA; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MACACA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; POPULATION SIZE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DNA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

CERCOPITHECOIDEA; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 49749142953     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn148     Document Type: Article

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