Are Guinea Pigs Rodents? The Importance of Adequate Models in Molecular Phylogenetics

1997/06/01 by Jack Sullivan, David L. Swofford · 205 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Biology #Clade #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genetics #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Mitochondrial DNA #Monophyly #Phylogenetic tree

paper · doi:10.1023/a:1027314112438

published in Journal of Mammalian Evolution 4(2), 77-86 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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Citations

• Phylogenetic place of guinea pigs: no support of the rodent-polyphyly hypothesis from maximum-likelihood analyses of multiple protein sequences.
• Toward a Phylogenetic Classification of the Mammalia
• Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods will be Positively Misleading
• Is the guinea-pig a rodent?
• Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA
• Monophyly or polyphyly of the order Rodentia: Possible conflict between morphological and molecular interpretations
• A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences
• The guinea-pig is not a rodent
• Maximum likelihood phylogenetic estimation from DNA sequences with variable rates over sites: Approximate methods
• Statistical tests of models of DNA substitution

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• Retroposed Elements as Archives for the Evolutionary History of Placental Mammals
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• Hystricomorpha [wikipedia]