The ancestral distance test: What relatedness can reveal about correlated evolution in large lineages with missing character data and incomplete phylogenies

Systematic Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 803-817

  Hearn, David ^a   Huber, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral distance; Character correlation test; Homeosis; Markov model; Monte Carlo simulation; Phylogeny; Poisson process; Rate heterogeneity; Taxonomic rank; Yule tree

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 39049181815     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150600981562     Document Type: Article

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