Testing for treeness: Lateral gene transfer, phylogenetic inference, and model selection

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 675-687

  Velasco, Joel D ^a   Sober, Elliott ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion; Lateral gene transfer; Model selection; Parsimony; Phylogenetic networks

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENE TRANSFER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODELING; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS;

LANGAT VIRUS;

EID: 77956010970     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: 15728404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-010-9222-6     Document Type: Article

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