Phylogenetics

Phylogenetics is the scientific study of evolutionary relationships and common ancestry among organisms or taxa, inferred through comparative analysis of molecular sequences and morphological characters.

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BioinformaticsEvolutionary Biology

Children

Ancestral State ReconstructionBayesian PhylogeneticsBootstrapping In PhylogeneticsCharacter EvolutionCoalescent-based PhylogeneticsDistance-based PhylogeneticsDivergence Time EstimationEvolutionary Model SelectionGene Tree InferenceHomology Assessment

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93.4K

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

Naruya Saitou, M Nei · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1987 · 60.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology +17

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

Koichiro Tamura, Glen Stecher, Daniel S. Peterson et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2013 · 47.9K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology +17

MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput

R. C. Edgar · Nucleic Acids Research · 2004 · 46.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Biology +13

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

Sudhir Kumar, Glen Stecher, Koichiro Tamura · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2016 · 45.6K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Genetics +16

CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

Joseph Felsenstein · Evolution · 1985 · 41.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biostatistics, Evolutionary Biology +10

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Mark W. Chase
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom
289 publications · 36.7K citations
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Pamela S. Soltis
Florida Museum of Natural History, United States
216 publications · 37K citations
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P.W. Crous
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Netherlands
207 publications · 35K citations
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John J. Wiens
University of Arizona, United States
147 publications · 23.9K citations
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Michael J. Donoghue
Yale University, United States
150 publications · 33K citations
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNAS · 1K publications · 238K citations
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
MBE · 1.9K publications · 718.5K citations
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Systematic Biology
2K publications · 374.6K citations
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
4.6K publications · 322.5K citations
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Evolution
1.6K publications · 226.1K citations
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See also Phylogenetics
Core Methods	Neighbor-joining Bayesian Inference Markov Chain Monte Carlo Maximum Parsimony Maximum Likelihood Estimation Upgma
Evolutionary Models	Brownian Motion Continuous-time Markov Chains
Data Sources	Phylogenetics Chloroplast Sequence Alignment
Tree Support	Post-test Probability Majority Rule
Applications	Biodiversity Biogeography Conservation Biology Paleoanthropology Linguistics Comparative Morphology Biomechanics Protein Structure Prediction Infectious Disease Epidemiology Sociolinguistics Community Ecology Multiple Sequence Alignment Phylogenetic Comparative Methods Species Classification Homology Detection Cancer Biology Drug Development Phylogeography