On the Best Evolutionary Rate for Phylogenetic Analysis

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 125-133

  Yang, Ziheng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branch lengths; Homoplasy; Likelihood; Optimum evolutionary rate; Parsimony; Phylogeny; Saturation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TIME;

EID: 0032028624     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351598261067     Document Type: Article

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