Construction of amino acid rate matrices and extensions of the Barry and Hartigan model for phylogenetic inference
This thesis considers two distinct topics in phylogenetic analysis. The first is construction of empirical rate matrices for amino acid models. The second topic, which constitutes the majority of the thesis, involves analysis of and extensions to the BH model of Barry and Hartigan (1987). There are...
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| Language: | en |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14248 |