Links between maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony under a simple model of site substitution

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 581-607

  Tuffley, Chris ^a   Steel, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MODEL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 0031149251     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02459467     Document Type: Article

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