Multiple UPGMA and neighbor-joining trees and the performance of some computer packages

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 309-313

  Backeljau, Thierry ^a   De Bruyn, Luc ^b   De Wolf, Hans ^b   Jordaens, Kurt ^b   Van Dongen, Stefan ^b   Winnepenninckx, Birgitta ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bootstrapping; clustering; computer programs; data input order; neighbor joining; phylogeny estimation; ties; UPGMA

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; AVERAGING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC DISTANCE; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ASCOMYCOTA; MOLLUSCA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030028277     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025590     Document Type: Article

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