Applying species-tree analyses to deep phylogenetic histories: Challenges and potential suggested from a survey of empirical phylogenetic studies

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 191-199

  Lanier, Hayley C ^a,b   Knowles, L Lacey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

*BEAST; Coalescent variance; Data sufficiency; Incomplete lineage sorting; Mutational variance; Tree of Life (ToL) studies

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84922680916     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.022     Document Type: Article

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