Least squares estimation of molecular distance--noise abatement in phylogenetic reconstruction.

doi:10.1006/tpbi.1994.1012

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Least squares estimation of molecular distance--noise abatement in phylogenetic reconstruction.

Theoretical population biology - 1 Jun 1994

Goldstein D B, Pollock D D

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Zuckerkandl and Pauling (1962, "Horizons in Biochemistry," pp. 189-225, Academic Press, New York) first noticed that the degree of sequence similarity between the proteins of different species could be used to estimate their phylogenetic relationship. Since then models have been developed to impr...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Base Sequence
Least-Squares Analysis
Linear Models
Mammals
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Phylogeny
Reproducibility of Results
Species Specificity

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