On the validity of evolutionary models with site-specific parameters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Scheffler, Konrad ^a,b   Murrell, Ben ^a   Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; EVOLUTION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84899509429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094534     Document Type: Article

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