Likelihood-based tree reconstruction on a concatenation of aligned sequence data sets can be statistically inconsistent

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 100, Issue , 2015, Pages 56-62

  Roch, Sebastien ^a   Steel, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Consistency; Incomplete lineage sorting; Maximum likelihood; Phylogenetic reconstruction

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84921289760     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2014.12.005     Document Type: Article

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