RELAX: Detecting Relaxed Selection in a Phylogenetic Framework

Wertheim, Joel O., Murrell, Ben, Smith, Martin D., Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L., Scheffler, Konrad·2015·Molecular Biology and Evolution

DOI 10.1093/molbev/msu400

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