Cladistics · 1990 · 91 citations · 9 references
Life SciencesBioinformaticsEvolutionary BiologyMolecular EvolutionPhylogeneticsSequence AnalysisCladistic AnalysisPhylogenetic AnalysisPhylogenetic InferencePhylogenetic Sequence AnalysisPhylogenetic Tree ReconstructionTree Topology ComparisonNucleic Acid Sequence AnalysisNucleic Acid Sequence EvolutionParsimony Tree ComparisonPhylogenetic Parsimony
Abstract— A data dependent weighting procedure is developed to allow the comparison of phylogenetic trees based on nucleic acid sequence data. The sampling error of this cladogram “cost” is then examined, permitting statistical evaluation of the cost differential.
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