Inferring and validating horizontal gene transfer events using bipartition dissimilarity

Systematic Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-211

  Boc, Alix ^a   Philippe, Hervé ^b   Makarenkov, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bipartition dissimilarity; Bootstrap analysis; Horizontal gene transfer; Least squares; Phylogenetic tree; Quartet distance; Robinson and Foulds topological distance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 77649259858     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp103     Document Type: Article

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