Why do more divergent sequences produce smaller nonsynonymous/synonymous rate ratios in pairwise sequence comparisons?

Genetics

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 195-204

  dos Reis, Mario ^a   Yang, Ziheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NATURAL SELECTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PURIFYING SELECTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EVOLUTIONARY DISTANCE; NONSYNONYMOUS TO SYNONYMOUS RATE RATIO; PAIRWISE ALIGNMENT; SELECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84883765012     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.152025     Document Type: Article

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