A new estimate of sequence divergence of mitochondrial DNA using restriction endonuclease mappings
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Molecular Evolution
- Vol. 13 (4), 295-304
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01731370
Abstract
A new estimate of the sequence divergence of mitochondrial DNA in related species using restriction enzyme maps is constructed. The estimate is derived assuming a simple Posisson-like model for the evolutionary process and is chosen to maximize an expression which is a reasonable approximation to the true likelihood of the restriction map data. Using this estimate, four sets of mitochondrial DNA data are analyzed and discussed.Keywords
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