Accuracy of neighbor joining for n-taxon trees

Systematic Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 516-523

  Strimmer, Korbinian ^a   Von Haeseler, Arndt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assigning edge lengths; Felsenstein zone; Finite sequence length; Jukes Cantor model; Monte Carlo sampling; Neighbor joining

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030310648     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/45.4.516     Document Type: Article

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