Inference of reticulate evolutionary histories by maximum likelihood: the performance of information criteria

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Maximum likelihood has been widely used for over three decades to infer phylogenetic trees from molecular data. When reticulate evolutionary events occur, several genomic regions may have conflicting evolutionary histories, and a phy...

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Main Authors: Park Hyun Jung, Nakhleh Luay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics