Robustness of maximum likelihood tree estimation against different patterns of base substitutions.

doi:10.1007/BF02099932

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Robustness of maximum likelihood tree estimation against different patterns of base substitutions.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jan 1991

Fukami-Kobayashi K, Tateno Y

Abstract excerpt

In the maximum likelihood (ML) method for estimating a molecular phylogenetic tree, the pattern of nucleotide substitutions for computing likelihood values is assumed to be simpler than that of the actual evolutionary process, simply because the process, considered to be quite devious, is unknown...

Topics

Base Composition
Computer Simulation
Deltaretrovirus
Genes, pX
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Phylogeny

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