The devil in the details: Interactions between the branch-length prior and likelihood model affect node support and branch lengths in the phylogeny of the psoraceae

Systematic Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 541-561

  Ekman, Stefan ^a,b   Blaalid, Rakel ^b,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Branch length prior; lichen forming ascomycetes; model adequacy; node support; Psoraceae; rogue taxa

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASCOMYCOTA; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

ASCOMYCOTA; MICAREA SYLVICOLA; PROTOBLASTENIA; PSORA; PSORACEAE;

EID: 79959475011     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr022     Document Type: Article

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