Looking for darwin in genomic sequences-validity and success of statistical methods

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2889-2893

  Zhai, Weiwei ^a   Nielsen, Rasmus ^b   Goldman, Nick ^c   Yang, Ziheng ^d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

codon model; Darwinian selection; likelihood ratio test

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; GENES; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION, GENETIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84866910156     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss104     Document Type: Article

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