A basic limitation on inferring phylogenies by pairwise sequence comparisons

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 467-472

  Steel, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Distance based methods; Gamma distributed rates; Identifiability; Phylogenetic tree

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; SHAPE; STOCHASTICITY; TAXONOMY; TOPOLOGY; TREE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TAXONOMY; TREE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 58149120871     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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