Visualizing differences in phylogenetic information content of alignments and distinction of three classes of long-branch effects

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Published molecular phylogenies are usually based on data whose quality has not been explored prior to tree inference. This leads to errors because trees obtained with conventional methods suppress conflicting evidence, and because s...

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Main Authors: Mayer Christoph, Wägele Johann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-08-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/147