Comparison of three methods for estimating rates of synonymous and nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2290-2298

  Tzeng, Yun Huei ^a,b   Pan, Runsun ^a,c   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accuracy of estimation; Estimation methods; Ka Ks ratio; Nonsynonymous substitution; Synonymous substitution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 8444247896     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh242     Document Type: Article

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