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When does the incongruence length difference test fail?
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Apr 2002
Darlu Pierre, Lecointre Guillaume
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This paper examines the efficiency of the incongruence length difference test (ILD) proposed by Farris et al. (1994) for assessing the incongruence between sets of characters. DNA sequences were simulated under various evolutionary conditions: (1) following symmetric or asymmetric trees, (2) with various mutation rates, (3) with constant or variable evolutionary rates along the branches, and (4) with different...
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