The Exploration of Effect of Model Misspecification and Development of an Adequacy-Test for Substitution Model in Phylogenetics

It is possible that the maximum likelihood method can give an inconsistent result when the DNA sequences are generated under a tree topology which is in the Felsentein Zone and analyzed with a misspeci ed model. Therefore, it is important to select a good substitution model. This thesis rst explore...

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Main Author: Chen, Wei Jr
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10222/15705