Phylogenetic substitution models for detecting heterotachy during plastid evolution.

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There is widespread evidence of lineage-specific rate variation, known as heterotachy, during protein evolution. Changes in the structural and functional constraints acting on a protein can lead to heterotachy, and it is plausible that such changes, known as covarion shifts, may affect many amino acids at once. Several previous attempts to model heterotachy have used covarion models, where the sequence undergoes...

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