The effect of taxon sampling on estimating rate heterogeneity parameters of maximum-likelihood models

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1347-1356

  Sullivan, Jack ^a   Swofford, David L ^b   Naylor, Gavin J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Molecular phylogeny; Parameter estimation; Parametric bootstrap; Rate heterogeneity; Simulation; Stationarity

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SHARK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TAXONOMY;

CARCHARHINIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 0032875445     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026045     Document Type: Article

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