Analysis of a rapid evolutionary radiation using ultraconserved elements: Evidence for a bias in some multispecies coalescent methods

Systematic Biology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 612-627

  Meiklejohn, Kelly A ^a   Faircloth, Brant C ^b   Glenn, Travis C ^c   Kimball, Rebecca T ^a   Braun, Edward L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galliformes; Gene tree estimation error; Phasianidae; Polytomy; Supermatrix rooted triplets; Total evidence; Triplec

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84979263803     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syw014     Document Type: Article

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