Best-fit maximum-likelihood models for phylogenetic inference: Empirical tests with known phylogenies

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 978-987

  Cunningham, C W ^a   Zhu, H ^a   Hillis, D M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Best fit models; Long branch attraction; Maximum likelihood; Minimum evolution; Phylogeny reconstruction

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0031713421     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb01827.x     Document Type: Article

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