Weighted neighbor joining: A likelihood-based approach to distance-based phylogeny reconstruction

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 189-197

  Bruno, William J ^a   Socci, Nicholas D ^b,c   Halpern, Aaron L ^d  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Distance methods; Evolutionary tree reconstruction; Long branch distracts; Long branch attraction; Weighbor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DISTANCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MODEL; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; TAXONOMY; VARIANCE;

EID: 0033984609     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026231     Document Type: Article

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