Detecting the anomaly zone in species trees and evidence for a misleading signal in higher-level skink phylogeny (Squamata: Scincidae).

Systematic Biology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 465-477

  Linkem, Charles W ^a   Minin, Vladimir N ^a   Leaché, Adam D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous Gene Trees; IDBA; Incomplete Lineage Sorting; Phylogenetics; Probes; Sequence Capture; UCE; Ultraconserved Elements

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; GENOME; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84978792929     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syw001     Document Type: Article

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