Article
Limitations of the evolutionary parsimony method of phylogenetic analysis.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jan 1990
Jin L, Nei M
Abstract excerpt
Lake's evolutionary parsimony (EP) method of constructing a phylogenetic tree is primarily applied to four DNA sequences. In this method, three quantities--X, Y, and Z--that correspond to three possible unrooted trees are computed, and an invariance property of these quantities is used for choosing the best tree. However, Lake's method depends on a number of unrealistic assumptions. We therefore examined the...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- DNA
- Genetic Variation
- Mathematics
- Models, Genetic
- Nucleotides
- Phylogeny