Taxon influence index: Assessing taxon-induced incongruities in phylogenetic inference

Systematic Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 337-345

  Mariadassou, Mahendra ^a,b   Bar Hen, Avner ^a   Kishino, Hirohisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bootstrap support; taxon influence; taxon sampling; tree robustness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES;

EID: 84857344755     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr129     Document Type: Article

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