Potential pitfalls of modelling ribosomal RNA data in phylogenetic tree reconstruction: Evidence from case studies in the Metazoa

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Letsch, Harald O ^a   Kjer, Karl M ^b  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; METAZOAN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; RNA; TAXONOMY; TRADE-OFF;

METAZOA;

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHINODERM; GENETICS; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; ECHINODERMATA; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 79957452882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-146     Document Type: Article

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