Sufficient conditions for two tree reconstruction techniques to succeed on sufficiently long sequences (Q2706188)
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19 March 2001
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maximum parsimony method
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maximum compatibility method
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Felsenstein zone
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Jukes-Cantor model
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hidden Markov model
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Sufficient conditions for two tree reconstruction techniques to succeed on sufficiently long sequences (English)
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Reconstruction of phylogenies is a central problem in evolutionary biology. Two popular methods, maximum parsimony and maximum compatibility, are known to be misleading with probability 1 in certain ill-behaving cases (known as Felsenstein zone). This important paper gives the first general (in terms of the number of extant species and the generality of the shape of the trees) sufficient conditions for the statistical consistency of maximum parsimony and maximum compatibility methods.
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