Can weighting improve bushy trees? Models of cytochrome b evolution and the molecular systematics of pipits and wagtails (Aves: Motacillidae)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 589-603

  Voelker, Gary ^a,b   Edwards, Scott V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Character weighting; Cytochrome b; Maximum likelihood; Motacillidae; Rate variation; Systematics; Transition bias

Indexed keywords

AVES; MOTACILLIDAE;

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032226174     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351598260608     Document Type: Article

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