The influence of rate heterogeneity among sites on the time dependence of molecular rates

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3345-3358

  Soubrier, Julien ^a   Steel, Mike ^b   Lee, Michael S Y ^c   Der Sarkissian, Clio ^a   Guindon, Stéphane ^d   Ho, Simon Y W ^e   Cooper, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

among site rate variation; divergence times; molecular clock; substitution rate; time dependent rates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMULATION; SUBSTITUTION LINE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867750911     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss140     Document Type: Article

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