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    Trends Ecol Evol. 2009 Jan;24(1):1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.08.006. Epub 2008 Nov 18.

    Supertrees join the mainstream of phylogenetics.

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    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. j.a.cotton@qmul.ac.uk

    Abstract

    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.

    PMID:
    19022523
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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