Simulation study of the reliability and robustness of the statistical methods for detecting positive selection at single amino acid sites.

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Published in Mol Biol Evol on November 01, 2002

Authors

Yoshiyuki Suzuki1, Masatoshi Nei

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802, USA. yis1@psu.edu

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