Molecular clock fork phylogenies: Closed form analytic maximum likelihood solutions

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 963-967

  Chor, Benny ^a   Snir, Sagi ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Analytic solutions; Hadamard conjugation; Maximum likelihood; Molecular clock; Phylogenetic reconstruction; Symbolic algebra software; Systems of polynomial equations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 12444268422     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490522728     Document Type: Article

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