Evolutionary trees with minimum nucleotide replacements from amino acid sequences (original) (raw)
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The problem of determining the minimum number of nucleotide substitutions required to account for the descent of a set of amino acid sequences given their ancestral relationships (phylogeny) has been studied. A method expanding upon the earlier work of Fitch (1971) for a set of nucleotide sequences is presented and its merits compared to the method of Moore_et al._ (1973).
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Walter M. Fitch - Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stoney Brook, 11790, Stoney Brook, New York, USA
James S. Farris
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- Walter M. Fitch
- James S. Farris
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Fitch, W.M., Farris, J.S. Evolutionary trees with minimum nucleotide replacements from amino acid sequences.J Mol Evol 3, 263–278 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01796042
- Received: 08 December 1973
- Issue date: December 1974
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01796042