Long-branch attraction bias and inconsistency in Bayesian phylogenetics.

Bayesian inference (BI) of phylogenetic relationships uses the same probabilistic models of evolution as its precursor maximum likelihood (ML), so BI has generally been assumed to share ML's desirable statistical properties, such as largely unbiased inference of topology given an accurate model...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bryan Kolaczkowski, Joseph W Thornton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2785476?pdf=render