Inconsistency of evolutionary tree topology reconstruction methods when substitution rates vary across characters

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(95)00172-7zbMath0847.92012OpenAlexW2048200453WikidataQ38563546 ScholiaQ38563546MaRDI QIDQ1917634

Joseph T. Chang

Publication date: 13 October 1996

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(95)00172-7

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihoodPoisson processesdistance methodsreconstruction methodshomogeneity assumptioninconsistenciestopology estimationtopology of evolutionary trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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Links between maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony under a simple model of site substitution ⋮ Modeling the covarion hypothesis of nucleotide substitution ⋮ Reconstructing phylogenies from nucleotide pattern probabilities: A survey and some new results ⋮ Large-Scale Multiple Sequence Alignment and Phylogeny Estimation ⋮ Distance measures in terms of substitution processes ⋮ What can and what cannot be inferred from pairwise sequence comparisons?

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