Spurious 99% bootstrap and jackknife support for unsupported clades

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 177-191

  Simmons, Mark P ^a   Freudenstein, John V ^b  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency within replicates bootstrap; Jackknife; Majority rule consensus; Missing data; Undersampling within replicates artifact; Unsupported clade

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79960573402     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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