Robustness of ancestral sequence reconstruction to phylogenetic uncertainty

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1988-1999

  Hanson Smith, Victor ^a   Kolaczkowski, Bryan ^a   Thornton, Joseph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

ancestral state reconstruction; Bayesian; gene reconstruction; maximum likelihood; phylogenetic analysis; simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANCESTRAL SEQUENCE RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; GENE SEQUENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; PHYLOGENY; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 77955975654     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq081     Document Type: Article

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