Disparate parametric branch-support values from ambiguous characters

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-86

  Simmons, Mark P ^a   Randle, Christopher P ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Sam Houston State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguous optimization; Bootstrap; Decisive taxon coverage; Parsimony; Redundant taxa; SH like aLRT

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; RUBIACEAE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 84901451257     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.04.029     Document Type: Article

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