Estimating the pattern of nucleotide substitution.

doi:10.1007/BF00178256

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Estimating the pattern of nucleotide substitution.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jul 1994

Yang Z

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Knowledge of the pattern of nucleotide substitution is important both to our understanding of molecular sequence evolution and to reliable estimation of phylogenetic relationships. The method of parsimony analysis, which has been used to estimate substitution patterns in real sequences, has serio...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
DNA, Mitochondrial
Genetic Variation
Globins
Humans
Markov Chains
Models, Genetic
Phylogeny
Primates
Probability
Pseudogenes

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