Exploring among-site rate variation models in a maximum likelihood framework using empirical data: Effects of model assumptions on estimates of topology, branch lengths, and bootstrap support

Systematic Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-86

  Buckley, Thomas R ^a   Simon, Chris ^a,b   Chambers, Geoffrey K ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Among site rate variation; Bootstrapping; Insect mitochondrial DNA; Likelihood ratio test; Maoricicada; Maximum likelihood; Nucleotide substitution models

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; GENE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOMETRY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; HEMIPTERA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER, ASP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035527383     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150116786     Document Type: Article

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