Reversibility in Evolution: A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Character Gain/Loss Bias in Phylogenies

1 February 1993

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Evolution

Vol. 47 (1) , 236
https://doi.org/10.2307/2410132

Abstract

Statistical methods are used to test the hypothesis that rate of gain is equal to rate of loss for a single character on a cladogram. Ancestral character states...

Keywords

EVOLUTION
PHYLOGENIES
ANCESTRAL
CLADOGRAM
GAIN/LOSS
BIAS
REVERSIBILITY
MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
LIKELIHOOD APPROACH

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