Uncertainty in the reconstruction of ancestral character states and limitations on the use of phylogenetic comparative methods

Losos, Jonathan B.

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Uncertainty in the reconstruction of ancestral character states and limitations on the use of phylogenetic comparative methods

Losos, Jonathan B.·1999·Animal Behaviour

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The ability to assess confidence in ancestral reconstructions is an important advantage of model-based reconstruction methods such as maximum likelihood over methods like parsimony which simply generate a point estimate.
“the ability to assess confidence in such reconstructions is an important advantage of model-based reconstruction methods, such as maximum likelihood, over methods like parsimony which simply generate a point estimate (Losos 1999).”
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Authors: Losos, J. B.
Affiliations: Washington University in St. Louis (US)
Corresponding author: Losos, Jonathan B.
ORCID: Losos, Jonathan B.
Venue: Animal Behaviour
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 1999-12
Volume: 58
Issue: 6
Pages: 1319-1324
ISSN: 0003-3472 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1261
OpenAlex: W2117660161
Cited by: 163
References: 35
Citations by year: 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 8
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Animal Behaviour (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Keywords: ancestral state reconstruction, phylogenetic comparative analysis, uncertainty, 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, core genes, false positive rate, microbial taxonomy

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