Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Evolution from DNA Sequences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  White, W Timothy J ^a,b   Zhong, Bojian ^a   Penny, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CHLOROPLAST DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTON;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEUTEROSTOMIA; DNA SEQUENCE; EUDICOT; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOCOT; NEOAVES; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PSBK GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROBABILITY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84881332753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069924     Document Type: Article

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