Estimating phylogenies from lacunose distance matrices: Additive is superior to ultrametric estimation

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 818-823

  Landry, Pierre Alexandre ^a   Lapointe, François Joseph ^a   Kirsch, John A W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b St Luke's Sinai Samaritan Med C   (United States)

Author keywords

distance matrices; DNA hybridization; missing data; phylogenetic reconstruction; simulation study

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SIMULATION;

EID: 0029999779     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025642     Document Type: Article

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