Maximum likelihood outperforms maximum parsimony even when evolutionary rates are heterotachous

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2139-2141

  Gadagkar, Sudhindra R ^a   Kumar, Sudhir ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterotachy; Maximum likelihood; Maximum parsimony; Phylogenetic inference

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; FORCE; GENE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 26444612274     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi212     Document Type: Article

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