Implementing and testing the multispecies coalescent model: A valuable paradigm for phylogenomics

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 94, Issue , 2016, Pages 447-462

  Edwards, Scott V ^a   Xi, Zhenxiang ^a   Janke, Axel ^b   Faircloth, Brant C ^c   McCormack, John E ^d   Glenn, Travis C ^e   Zhong, Bojian ^f   Wu, Shaoyuan ^g   Lemmon, Emily Moriarty ^h   Lemmon, Alan R ^h   Leaché, Adam D ⁱ   Liu, Liang ^e   Davis, Charles C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOMICS; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84946430098     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.027     Document Type: Review

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