Improving divergence time estimation in phylogenetics: More taxa vs. longer sequences

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Svennblad, Bodil ^a   Britton, Tom ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Divergence time estimation; Maximum Likelihood; Mean Path Length; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXON; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 37849016821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1313     Document Type: Article

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