Statistical comparison of nucleotide, amino acid, and codon substitution models for evolutionary analysis of protein-coding sequences

Systematic Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 199-210

  Seo, Tae Kun ^a   Kishino, Hirohisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

AIC; Amino acid model; BIC; Codon model; Likelihood ratio test; Model comparison; Nucleotide model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 67749114398     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp015     Document Type: Article

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