Detecting coevolution without phylogenetic trees? Tree-ignorant metrics of coevolution perform as well as tree-aware metrics

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Caporaso, J Gregory ^a   Smit, Sandra ^b   Easton, Brett C ^c   Hunter, Lawrence ^d   Huttley, Gavin A ^c   Knight, Rob ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOGLOBIN; MYOSIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOGLOBIN; MYOSINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 60249099824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-327     Document Type: Article

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