The optimization principle in phylogenetic analysis tends to give incorrect topologies when the number of nucleotides or amino acids used is small.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on October 13, 1998

Authors

M Nei1, S Kumar, K Takahashi

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics and Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-5301, USA. nxm2@psu.edu

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