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Inferring phylogenies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Felsenstein, Joseph
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, [2004]
Subjects:
Cladistic analysis > Mathematics.
Table of Contents:
  • Parsimony methods
  • Counting evolutionary changes
  • How many trees are there?
  • Finding the best tree by heuristic search
  • Finding the best tree : branch and bound
  • Ancestral states and branch lengths
  • Variants of parsimony
  • Compatibility
  • Statistical properties of parsimony
  • A digression on history and philosophy
  • Distance matrix methods
  • Quartets of species
  • Models of DNA evolution
  • Models of protein evolution
  • Restriction sites, RAPDS, and microsatellites
  • Likelihood methods
  • Hadamard methods
  • Bayesian inference of phylogenies.