Increased congruence does not necessarily indicate increased phylogenetic accuracy-The behavior of the incongruence length difference test in mixed-model analyses

Systematic Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-31

  Dowton, Mark ^a,b   Austin, Andrew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Incongruence; Partition homogeneity; Sensitivity analysis; Simulated dataset; Six parameter parsimony

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; HYMENOPTERA; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENES, INSECT; HYMENOPTERA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0036005517     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351502753475853     Document Type: Article

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