Probability distribution of molecular evolutionary trees: A new method of phylogenetic inference

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 304-311

  Rannala, Bruce ^a   Yang, Ziheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical Bayes estimation; MAP tree; Maximum likelihood; Nucleotide substitution; Phylogeny; Posterior probability

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; GORILLA; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORANG UTAN; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY;

PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 0029818407     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02338839     Document Type: Article

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