Should we be worried about long-branch attraction in real data sets? Investigations using metazoan 18S rDNA

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 440-451

  Anderson, Frank E ^a   Swofford, David L ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Felsenstein zone; Inconsistency; Long branch attraction; Maximum likelihood; Maximum parsimony; Metazoan rDNA; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DNA, RIBOSOMAL; INVERTEBRATES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

ANNELIDA; COELENTERATA; METAZOA; POLYCHAETA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 4444220955     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.06.015     Document Type: Article

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