Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (17)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Posada, D.
Right arrow Articles by Crandall, K. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Posada, D.
Right arrow Articles by Crandall, K. A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:271-275 (2001)
© 2001 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

LETTER

Simple (Wrong) Models for Complex Trees: A Case from Retroviridae

David Posada and Keith A. Crandall

Department of Zoology, Brigham Young University

Although the use of adequate models of evolution should improve the accuracy of phylogenetic inference (Leitner, Kumar, and Albert 1997Citation ; Sullivan and Swofford 1997Citation ; Cunningham, Zhu, and Hillis 1998Citation ), computer simulation studies have shown that under certain circumstances, wrong models can recover the true tree with higher probability than the tree model employed to generate the data (Saitou and Nei 1987Citation ; Schöniger and von Haeseler 1993Citation ; Tajima and Takezaki 1994Citation ; Tateno, Takezaki, and Nei 1994Citation ; Yang 1997aCitation ; Takahashi and Nei 2000Citation ). These results have previously been attributed to the complexity of the topology estimation problem (Yang 1997aCitation ), but Bruno and Halpern (1999)Citation have suggested that they could be better understood in terms of bias toward the true tree when the assumptions of the method are violated; in other words, getting the right answer for the wrong reason.

There . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Acknowledgements

Footnotes

literature cited


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Syst BiolHome page
D. Kordis, N. Lovsin, and F. Gubensek
Phylogenomic Analysis of the L1 Retrotransposons in Deuterostomia
Syst Biol, December 1, 2006; 55(6): 886 - 901.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Syst BiolHome page
D. Posada and T. R. Buckley
Model Selection and Model Averaging in Phylogenetics: Advantages of Akaike Information Criterion and Bayesian Approaches Over Likelihood Ratio Tests
Syst Biol, October 1, 2004; 53(5): 793 - 808.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Mol Biol EvolHome page
V. V. Goremykin, K. I. Hirsch-Ernst, S. Wolfl, and F. H. Hellwig
Analysis of the Amborella trichopoda Chloroplast Genome Sequence Suggests That Amborella Is Not a Basal Angiosperm
Mol. Biol. Evol., September 1, 2003; 20(9): 1499 - 1505.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Mol Biol EvolHome page
N. Goldman and S. Whelan
A Novel Use of Equilibrium Frequencies in Models of Sequence Evolution
Mol. Biol. Evol., November 1, 2002; 19(11): 1821 - 1831.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Mol Biol EvolHome page
G. Gutierrez, D. Sanchez, and A. Marin
A Reanalysis of the Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Sequences Recovered from Neandertal Bones
Mol. Biol. Evol., August 1, 2002; 19(8): 1359 - 1366.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]