Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny and Its Impact on Evolutionary Biology
Abstract
As a discipline, phylogenetics is becoming transformed by a flood of molecular data. These data allow broad questions to be asked about the history of life, but also present difficult statistical and computational problems. Bayesian inference of phylogeny brings a new perspective to a number of outstanding issues in evolutionary biology, including the analysis of large phylogenetic trees and complex evolutionary models and the detection of the footprint of natural selection in DNA sequences.
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Science
- Pub Date:
- December 2001
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- Bibcode:
- 2001Sci...294.2310H
- Keywords:
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- EVOLUTION