Phylogenies from molecular sequences: inference and reliability

J Felsenstein - Annual review of genetics, 1988 - annualreviews.org
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Ann". Rev. Genel. 1988. 22:521-65 CopyrighT © 1988 by Annual Reviews Inc. All righTs
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Joseph Felsenstein Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
98195 CONTENTS I NTRODUCTION ....... . . . ................. ................. ................ ................. 521
ESTIMATING PHyLOGENIES .............. . . . . . . ............................ . . . . ............. . . 522 METHODS …
The field of molecular evolution owes most of its existence to the possibility of sequencing proteins and nucleic acids. Molecular sequences provide us with precisely comparable characters, observed at or near the level of the
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