Statistical tests of molecular phylogenies.

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter provides a summary of methods for testing the significance inferred phylogenies. In terms parsimony nucleotide site is informative (useful) choosing among three trees only if it in same state two four species and another other species. Under assumption rate constancy, an has higher probability supporting true tree lower each trees. Instead phylogeny, simpler to test estimated intemodal distances. Like jackknife, bootstrap method resampling data under study infer variability estimate. was introduced into phylogenetic studies by Felsenstein. It not tree-making but statistical that can be used evaluate confidence level estimate obtained from set method.