Inferring the root of a phylogenetic tree

Systematic Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 32-43

  Huelsenbeck, John P ^a   Bollback, Jonathan P ^a   Levine, Amy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Hierarchical Bayes; Nonreversible models; Outgroup; Rooting

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0036005520     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351502753475862     Document Type: Article

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