Selection of conserved blocks from multiple alignments for their use in phylogenetic analysis.

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Published in Mol Biol Evol on April 01, 2000

Authors

J Castresana1

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1: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. jose.castresana@embl-heidelberg.de

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