Estimating the fraction of invariable codons with a capture-recapture method.

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Estimating the fraction of invariable codons with a capture-recapture method.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Sept 1992

Sidow A, Nguyen T, Speed T P

Abstract excerpt

A codon-based approach to estimating the number of variable sites in a protein is presented. When first and second positions of codons are assumed to be replacement positions, a capture-recapture model can be used to estimate the number of variable codons from every pair of homologous and aligned...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Codon
Computer Simulation
Genetic Techniques
Genetic Variation
Likelihood Functions
Molecular Sequence Data

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