Quartet-based phylogenetic inference: Improvements and limits

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1103-1116

  Ranwez, Vincent ^a   Gascuel, Olivier ^a,b  

^a Département Informatique Fondamentale et Applications   (France)

^b LIRMM   (France)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; Distance methods; Maximum likelihood; Parsimony; Phylogenetic reconstruction; Quartet methods; Tree consensus

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; THEORY;

EID: 0034983479     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003881     Document Type: Article

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