Article
Uncertain-tree: discriminating among competing approaches to the phylogenetic analysis of phenotype data.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 11 Jan 2017
Puttick Mark N, O'Reilly Joseph E, Tanner Alastair R, Fleming James F, Clark James, Holloway Lucy, Lozano-Fernandez Jesus, Parry Luke A, Tarver James E, Pisani Davide, Donoghue Philip C J
Abstract excerpt
Morphological data provide the only means of classifying the majority of life's history, but the choice between competing phylogenetic methods for the analysis of morphology is unclear. Traditionally, parsimony methods have been favoured but recent studies have shown that these approaches are less accurate than the Bayesian implementation of the Mk model. Here we expand on these findings in several ways: we...
Topics
- Bayes Theorem
- Likelihood Functions
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Uncertainty