Assessing what is needed to resolve a molecular phylogeny: Simulations and empirical data from emydid turtles

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Spinks, Phillip Q ^a,b   Thomson, Robert C ^a,b   Lovely, Geoff A ^a,c   Shaffer, H Bradley ^a,b  

^a Department of Evolution and Ecology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; DEIROCHELYINAE; EMYDINAE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GRAPTEMYS PSEUDOGEOGRAPHICA; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDEMYS CONCINNA; PSEUDEMYS PENINSULARIS; SIMULATION; TERRAPENE CAROLINA; TERRAPENE COAHUILA; TRACHEMYS; TURTLE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EMYDIDAE; GRAPTEMYS PSEUDOGEOGRAPHICA; PSEUDEMYS CONCINNA; TERRAPENE CAROLINA; TRACHEMYS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURTLES;

EID: 63049121388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-56     Document Type: Article

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