The construction of phylogenetic trees is of interest in its own right in evolutionary studies. It is also useful in many other ways, for example in the prediction of gene function; aspects of this area of the emerging field of phylogenomics are discussed by Eisen (1998).
Keywords
- Substitution Rate
- Monophyletic Group
- Maximum Likelihood Tree
- Tree Reconstruction
- Substitution Process
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