Phylogenetic information complexity: Is testing a tree easier than finding it?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-102

  Steel, Mike ^a   Székely, Laszlo ^b   Mossel, Elchanan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information content; Phylogenetic tree; Reconstruction; Sequence length

Indexed keywords

DNA;

DNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PHYLOGENETICS; PROBABILITY; TREE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 63549095030     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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