The prevalence of terraced treescapes in analyses of phylogenetic data sets

The prevalence of terraced treescapes in analyses of phylogenetic data sets

Abstract Background The pattern of data availability in a phylogenetic data set may lead to the formation of terraces, collections of equally optimal trees. Terraces can arise in tree space if trees are scored with parsimony or with partitioned, edge-unlinked maximum likelihood. Theory predicts that...

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Main Authors: Barbara H. Dobrin, Derrick J. Zwickl, Michael J. Sanderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Subjects:
Terrace
Partitioned model
Data decisiveness
Phylogenetics
Supermatrix
Large phylogenetic trees
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-018-1162-9

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