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Minimum-evolution Criterion

The Minimum-Evolution Criterion is a phylogenetic tree selection method that belongs to the class of distance-based optimality criteria and is distinguished by its principle of choosing the tree with the smallest sum of branch lengths as the optimal estimate of evolutionary relationships.

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Minimum Evolution MethodMinimum Evolution Principle

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FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

Morgan N. Price, Paramvir Dehal, Adam P. Arkin · PLoS ONE · 2010 · 16K citations · Full text

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A Simple Method for Estimating and Testing Minimum-Evolution Trees

Andrey Rzhetsky, Masatoshi Nei · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1992 · 1.5K citations

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Theoretical foundation of the minimum-evolution method of phylogenetic inference.

Andrey Rzhetsky, M Nei · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1993 · 672 citations · Full text

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Minimal Mutation Trees of Sequences

David Sankoff · SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics · 1975 · 598 citations

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Fast and Accurate Phylogeny Reconstruction Algorithms Based on the Minimum-Evolution Principle

Richard Desper, Olivier Gascuel · Journal of Computational Biology · 2002 · 509 citations

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Authors

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  1. OG
    Olivier Gascuel

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    6 publications · 210 citations

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  2. AR
    Andrey Rzhetsky

    University of Chicago, United States

    5 publications · 2.6K citations

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  3. MN
    Masatoshi Nei

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    3 publications · 1.9K citations

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  4. FP
    Fabio Pardi

    Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, France

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  5. LJ
    Les J. Szabo

    Cereal Disease Laboratory, United States

    2 publications · 53 citations

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  1. Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier

    Montpellier, France

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    919 citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    16.7K citations

  3. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    2.1K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    166 citations

  5. Université de Montpellier

    Montpellier, France

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    204 citations

  6. Institut de Biologia Evolutiva

    Barcelona, Spain

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    224 citations

  8. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

    Campinas, Brazil

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    37 citations

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  1. Molecular Biology and Evolution

    MBE · 12 publications · 3.3K citations

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  2. Systematic Biology

    7 publications · 546 citations

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  3. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

    3 publications · 173 citations

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  4. Copeia

    2 publications · 67 citations

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  5. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

    2 publications · 74 citations

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