The biasing effect of compositional heterogeneity on phylogenetic estimates may be underestimated

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 638-643

  Jermiin, Lars S ^a   Ho, Simon Y W ^a,b   Ababneh, Faisal ^a   Robinson, John ^a   Larkum, Anthony W D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION TREE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DECISION TREES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 4644299089     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490468648     Document Type: Review

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