Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6369017 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 2016 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
Our simulations show that: (i) the distributions of the reconstruction uncertainty provided by the methods generally make sense (some more than others); (ii) it is essential to detect the presence of an evolutionary trend and to choose a reconstruction method accordingly; (iii) all the methods show good performances on characters under stabilizing selection; (iv) without trend or stabilizing selection, the maximum likelihood method is generally the most accurate.
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Authors
Manuela Royer-Carenzi, Gilles Didier,