The impact of modelling rate heterogeneity among sites on phylogenetic estimates of intraspecific evolutionary rates and timescales

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Jia, Fangzhi ^a   Lo, Nathan ^a   Ho, Simon Y W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MUSKOX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; RATE HETEROGENEITY AMONG SITE; ANIMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84900445305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095722     Document Type: Article

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