Inconsistency of phylogenetic estimates from concatenated data under coalescence

Systematic Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-24

  Kubatko, Laura Salter ^a   Degnan, James H ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Concatenation; Gene tree; Maximum likelihood; Species tree; Statistical inconsistency; Supergene

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 33847302458     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150601146041     Document Type: Article

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