Quantification of homoplasy for nucleotide transitions and transversions and a reexamination of assumptions in weighted phylogenetic analysis

Systematic Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 617-627

  Broughton, Richard E ^a,b   Stanley, Scott E ^a,c   Durrett, Richard T ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c Clinical Data Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Character evolution; Consistency; Homoplasy; Transitions; Transversions; Weighted parsimony

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

BASE SEQUENCE; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0034351389     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351500750049734     Document Type: Article

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