Phylogenetic analysis is pervading every field of biological study. The authors review and assess the main methods of phylogenetic analysis — including parsimony, distance, likelihood and ...

The proper approach to setting priors for Bayesian analyses has always been a point of contention Efron 2013 and phylogenetics is no exception. Prior choice has been shown to be particularly important ...

The resulting distances can be expected to be approximately additive; that is, there exists a (phylogenetic) tree with branch lengths, so that the lengths of the paths between its leaves (sequences) ...