Detecting positive selection within genomes: The problem of biased gene conversion

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1552, 2010, Pages 2571-2580

  Ratnakumar, Abhirami ^a   Mousset, Sylvain ^b   Glémin, Sylvain ^c   Berglund, Jonas ^a   Galtier, Nicolas ^c   Duret, Laurent ^b   Webster, Matthew T ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Biased gene conversion; Recombination; Selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; RECOMBINATION;

PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77956463212     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0007     Document Type: Article

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