Limitations of locally sampled characters in phylogenetic analyses of sparse supermatrices

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Simmons, Mark P ^a  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian unlinked; Character partition; Maximum likelihood; Missing data; Parsimony; Strict consensus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BAYESIAN UNLINKED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHARACTER PARTITION; DNA SEQUENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MISSING DATA; PARSIMONY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; STRICT CONSENSUS;

BAYESIAN UNLINKED; CHARACTER PARTITION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MISSING DATA; PARSIMONY; STRICT CONSENSUS;

BAYES THEOREM; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84894609144     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.01.030     Document Type: Article

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