Controversies in modern evolutionary biology: The imperative for error detection and quality control

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Prosdocimi, Francisco ^a,b   Linard, Benjamin ^a   Pontarotti, Pierre ^c   Poch, Olivier ^a   Thompson, Julie D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Asymmetric evolution; Error detection; Gene duplication; Gene prediction; Quality control

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ASYMMETRIC EVOLUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ERROR; ERROR DETECTION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN SEQUENCE ERROR; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STANDARD;

VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 84855268902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-5     Document Type: Article

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