Increasing the efficiency of searches for the maximum likelihood tree in a phylogenetic analysis of up to 150 nucleotide sequences

Systematic Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 988-1010

  Morrison, David A ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Large data sets; Maximum likelihood; Phylogeny; Search strategies; Tree islands

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 39549109362     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150701779808     Document Type: Article

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