Testing Substitution Models Within a Phylogenetic Tree
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Testing substitution models within a phylogenetic tree.
Phylogenetic tree reconstruction frequently assumes the homogeneity of the substitution process over the whole tree. To test this assumption statistically, we propose a test based on the sample covariance matrix of the set of substitution rate matrices estimated from pairwise sequence comparison. The sample covariance matrix is condensed into a one-dimensional test statistic Delta = sum ln(1 + ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0737-4038,1537-1719
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg073