A higher order parsimony method to reduce long-branch attraction

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 694-705

  Willson, Stephen J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadamard conjugation; Long branch attraction; Maximum likelihood; Maximum parsimony; Phylogenetic tree; Quartet

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

HUMULUS;

EID: 0032931459     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026152     Document Type: Article

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