Journal article
The Pipid Root
Abstract
The estimation of phylogenetic relationships is an essential component of understanding evolution. Accurate phylogenetic estimation is difficult, however, when internodes are short and old, when genealogical discordance is common due to large ancestral effective population sizes or ancestral population structure, and when homoplasy is prevalent. Inference of divergence times is also hampered by unknown and uneven rates of evolution, the …
Authors
Bewick AJ; Chain FJJ; Heled J; Evans BJ
Journal
Systematic Biology, Vol. 61, No. 6, pp. 913–926
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
December 1, 2012
DOI
10.1093/sysbio/sys039
ISSN
1063-5157