Journal article
Heterotachy and long-branch attraction in phylogenetics
Abstract
BackgroundProbabilistic methods have progressively supplanted the Maximum Parsimony (MP) method for inferring phylogenetic trees. One of the major reasons for this shift was that MP is much more sensitive to the Long Branch Attraction (LBA) artefact than is Maximum Likelihood (ML). However, recent work by Kolaczkowski and Thornton suggested, on the basis of simulations, that MP is less sensitive than ML to tree reconstruction artefacts …
Authors
Philippe H; Zhou Y; Brinkmann H; Rodrigue N; Delsuc F
Journal
BMC Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 5, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2005
DOI
10.1186/1471-2148-5-50
ISSN
1472-6785