Should phylogenetic models be trying to 'fit an elephant'?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 307-309

  Steel, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BIOCHEMISTRY; DNA REPAIR; ELEPHANT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 19444384196     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.04.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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