Selecting question-specific genes to reduce incongruence in phylogenomics: A case study of jawed vertebrate backbone phylogeny

Systematic Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1104-1120

  Chen, Meng Yun ^a   Liang, Dan ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

phylogenetic signal; Phylogenomic; systematic bias; vertebrates

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SPINE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; SPINE; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84946104456     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv059     Document Type: Article

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