Patchy-tachy leads to false positives for recombination

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2549-2559

  Sun, Stephanie ^a   Evans, Ben J ^a   Golding, G Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

animal mtDNA; false positives; heterotachy; mitochondrial DNA; recombination; substitution rate heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION RATE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80052155692     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr076     Document Type: Article

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