Mitochondrial phylogenomics of early land plants: Mitigating the effects of saturation, compositional heterogeneity, and codon-usage bias

Systematic Biology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 862-878

  Liu, Yang ^a   Cox, Cymon J ^b   Wang, Wei ^c   Goffinet, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Compositional heterogeneity; Early land plants; Evolutionary saturation; Mitochondrial genome; Phylogenomics; Synonymous codon usage bias

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANTHOCEROTOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; STREPTOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

CODON;

CLASSIFICATION; CODON; EMBRYOPHYTA; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLASSIFICATION; CODON; EMBRYOPHYTA; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84909618628     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syu049     Document Type: Article

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