Article
Variance to mean ratio, R(t), for poisson processes on phylogenetic trees.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Sept 1994
Goldman N
Abstract excerpt
The ratio of expected variance to mean, R(t), of numbers of DNA base substitutions for contemporary sequences related by a "star" phylogeny is widely seen as a measure of the adherence of the sequences' evolution to a Poisson process with a molecular clock, as predicted by the "neutral theory" of...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- DNA
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Genes
- Globins
- Models, Biological
- Monte Carlo Method
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- Poisson Distribution
- Pseudogenes
- Sequence Alignment
- Time Factors
- Vertebrates