Long-Branch Attraction Bias and Inconsistency in Bayesian Phylogenetics

Bryan Kolaczkowski; Joseph W. Thornton

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007891

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Long-Branch Attraction Bias and Inconsistency in Bayesian Phylogenetics

Bryan Kolaczkowski,

Current address: Biology Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
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Joseph W. Thornton

* E-mail: joet@uoregon.edu

Affiliations Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
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Long-Branch Attraction Bias and Inconsistency in Bayesian Phylogenetics

Bryan Kolaczkowski,
Joseph W. Thornton

Published: December 9, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007891

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Posted by jeisen on 22 Dec 2009 at 16:03 GMT

I have not fully evaluated all of the simulations and analyses in the paper, but if they are all correct as they seem to be, this has some big implications for which phylogenetic methods one should use ...

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