A likelihood look at the supermatrix-supertree controversy

Gene

Volumn 441, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 119-125

  Ren, Fengrong ^a   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a   Yang, Ziheng ^b,c  

^a Tokyo Medical and Dental University ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Combined analysis; Likelihood; Likelihood supertree; Supermatrix; Supertree

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 67249107923     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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