Supertrees join the mainstream of phylogenetics

作者:Cotton James A*; Wilkinson Mark
来源:Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2009, 24(1): 1-3.
DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2008.08.006

摘要

Supertree methods are fairly widely used to build comprehensive phylogenies for particular groups, but concerns remain over the adequacy of existing approaches. Steel and Rodrigo recently introduced a statistical model of incongruence between trees, allowing maximum-likelihood supertree inference. This approach to supertree construction will enable hypothesis-testing and model-choice methods that are now routine in sequence phylogenetics to be applied in this setting, and might form an important part of future phylogenetic inference from genomic data.

  • 出版日期2009-1