The local-clock permutation test: a simple test to compare rates of molecular evolution on phylogenetic trees

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2010

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Lanfear, Robert

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Society for the Study of Evolution

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Rates of molecular evolution vary substantially between lineages, and a growing effort is directed at uncovering the causes and consequences of this variation. Comparing local-clocks (rates of molecular evolution estimated from different sets of branches

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Keywords: evolutionary biology; phylogenetics; statistical application; article; biological model; molecular evolution; phylogeny; statistical model; Evolution, Molecular; Models, Genetic; Models, Statistical; Phylogeny Likelihood-ratio test; Local-clock; Molecular clock; Molecular evolution; Substitution rate

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Evolution

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2037-12-31