Effect of the assignment of ancestral CpG state on the estimation of nucleotide substitution rates in mammals

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Gaffney, Daniel J ^a   Keightley, Peter D ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; DINUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CPG ISLAND; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PLESIOMORPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SUBSTITUTION LINE; UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOUSE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CPG ISLANDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 55149099590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-265     Document Type: Article

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