The future of codon models in studies of molecular function: Ancestral reconstruction and clade models of functional divergence

Codon Evolution: Mechanisms and Models

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chang, Belinda S W ^a   Du, Jingjing ^a   Weadick, Cameron J ^a   Müller, Johannes ^b   Bickelmann, Constanze ^b   David Yu, D ^a   Morrow, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancestral reconstruction; Clade models; Codon models; Functional divergence; Molecular evolution; Molecular function; Rhodopsins; Visual pigments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938512853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199601165.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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