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. 2021 Feb 22;70(5):1046–1060. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syab010

Table 3.

Existing amino-acid replacement matrices

Matrix Reference Genomic regions
Blosum62 Henikoff and Henikoff (1992) General
Dayhoff Dayhoff et al. (1978) General
JTT Jones et al. (1992) General
LG Le and Gascuel (2008) General
PMB Veerassamy et al. (2003) General
VT Muller and Vingron (2000) General
WAG Whelan and Goldman (2001) General
mtArt Abascal et al. (2007) Mitochondrial
mtMam Yang et al. (1998) Mitochondrial
mtRev Adachi and Hasegawa (1996) Mitochondrial
mtZoa Rota-Stabelli et al. (2009) Mitochondrial
mtMet Le et al. (2017) Mitochondrial
mtVer Le et al. (2017) Mitochondrial
mtInv Le et al. (2017) Mitochondrial
cpRev Adachi et al. (2000) Chloroplast
FLU Cuong et al. (2010) Viral
HIVb Nickle et al. (2007) Viral
HIVw Nickle et al. (2007) Viral
rtREV Dimmic et al. (2002) Viral