Estimating evolutionary rates using time-structured data: a general comparison of phylogenetic methods
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Using time-structured data to estimate evolutionary rates of double-stranded DNA viruses.
Double-stranded (ds) DNA viruses are often described as evolving through long-term codivergent associations with their hosts, a pattern that is expected to be associated with low rates of nucleotide substitution. However, the hypothesis of codivergence between dsDNA viruses and their hosts has rarely been rigorously tested, even though the vast majority of nucleotide substitution rate estimates...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioinformatics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1367-4803,1460-2059
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw421