A justification for reporting the majority-rule consensus tree in Bayesian phylogenetics

Systematic Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 814-821

  Holder, Mark T ^a   Sukumaran, Jeet ^a   Lewis, Paul O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION THEORY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

BAYES THEOREM; DECISION THEORY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 53849131729     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150802422308     Document Type: Review

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