Can comprehensive background knowledge be incorporated into substitution models to improve phylogenetic analyses? A case study on major arthropod relationships

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Whenever different data sets arrive at conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses, only testable causal explanations of sources of errors in at least one of the data sets allow us to critically choose among the conflicting hypotheses of rel...

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Main Authors: Luan Yun-xia, Stocsits Roman R, Letsch Harald O, Simon Sabrina, Gowri-Shankar Vivek, Bartel Daniela, Dell'Ampio Emiliano, Szucsich Nikolaus U, Meusemann Karen, von Reumont Björn M, Wägele Johann, Pass Günther, Hadrys Heike, Misof Bernhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-05-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/119