Revisiting an equivalence between maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood methods in phylogenetics

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 208-220

  Fischer, Mareike ^a   Thatte, Bhalchandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Maximum parsimony; Molecular clock; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BASE SEQUENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 73649083679     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-009-9446-2     Document Type: Article

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