Consistency, Characters, and the Likelihood of Correct Phylogenetic Inference

CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

1985 • 39,646 citations

Confidence Limits on Phylogenies: An Approach Using the Bootstrap

1985 • 18,213 citations

Quantitative Phyletics and the Evolution of Anurans

1969 • 2,905 citations

Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods will be Positively Misleading

1978 • 2,881 citations

Quantitative Phyletics and the Evolution of Anurans

1969 • 2,320 citations

Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods Will be Positively Misleading

1978 • 2,193 citations

Partitioning and Combining Data in Phylogenetic Analysis

1993 • 905 citations

Molecular Systematics of Plants

1992 • 822 citations

Success of Phylogenetic Methods in the Four-Taxon Case

1993 • 737 citations

Phylogenetic Relationships of Dipsacales Based on rbcL Sequences

1992 • 691 citations

Combining Data in Phylogenetic Systematics: An Empirical Approach Using Three Molecular Data Sets in the Solanaceae

1994 • 624 citations

Homology: the hierarchical basis of comparative biology

1994 • 600 citations

Chloroplast DNA Variation and Plant Phylogeny

1988 • 567 citations

PATTERNS OF VARIATION IN LEVELS OF HOMOPLASY

1989 • 555 citations

Homoplasy: The Result of Natural Selection, or Evidence of Design Limitations?

1991 • 521 citations

Application and Accuracy of Molecular Phylogenies

1994 • 517 citations

Testing Species Phylogenies and Phylogenetic Methods with Congruence

1995 • 492 citations

Homology in classical and molecular biology.

1988 • 440 citations

A Randomization Test for Phylogenetic Information in Systematic Data

1989 • 377 citations

Phylogenetics and ecology

1994 • 331 citations

The Retention Index and Homoplasy Excess

1989 • 323 citations

Ribosomal RNA secondary structure: compensatory mutations and implications for phylogenetic analysis.

1993 • 262 citations

Paired sequence difference in ribosomal RNAs: evolutionary and phylogenetic implications.

1988 • 238 citations

Approaches for Assessing Phylogenetic Accuracy

1995 • 238 citations

Tree-Length Distribution Skewness: An Indicator of Phylogenetic Information

1991 • 229 citations

The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics

1994 • 227 citations

THE USEFULNESS OF BEHAVIOR FOR PHYLOGENY ESTIMATION: LEVELS OF HOMOPLASY IN BEHAVIORAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS

1993 • 226 citations

Patterns of Variation in Levels of Homoplasy

1989 • 219 citations

A comparison of the small ribosomal RNA genes from the mitochondrial DNA of the great apes and humans: sequence, structure, evolution, and phylogenetic implications.

1986 • 210 citations

Homoplasy Excess Ratios: New Indices for Measuring Levels of Homoplasy in Phylogenetic Systematics and a Critique of the Consistency Index

1989 • 210 citations

A Likelihood Ratio Test to Detect Conflicting Phylogenetic Signal

1996 • 203 citations

Relative efficiencies of the maximum parsimony and distance-matrix methods in obtaining the correct phylogenetic tree.

1988 • 201 citations

The Suitability of Molecular and Morphological Evidence in Reconstructing Plant Phylogeny

1992 • 199 citations

rDNA: evolution over a billion years

1986 • 192 citations

Congruence Between Molecular and Morphological Phylogenies

1993 • 191 citations

Integration of Morphological and Ribosomal RNA Data on the Origin of Angiosperms

1994 • 183 citations

Tree-Length Distribution Skewness: An Indicator of Phylogenetic Information

1991 • 159 citations

Chloroplast and nuclear gene sequences indicate late Pennsylvanian time for the last common ancestor of extant seed plants.

1994 • 148 citations

A Molecular Phylogenetic Perspective on the Evolutionary Radiation of the Salamander Family Salamandridae

1995 • 146 citations

Cladistic analysis of molecular and morphological data

1994 • 121 citations

The Usefulness of Behavior for Phylogeny Estimation: Levels of Homoplasy in Behavioral and Morphological Characters

1993 • 116 citations

DNA and morphology: Inference of plant phylogeny

1990 • 113 citations

Consistency, Characters, and the Likelihood of Correct Phylogenetic Inference

1997 • 96 citations

Chloroplast DNA evidence for the origin of the genus Heterogaura from a species of Clarkia (Onagraceae)

1986 • 95 citations

Relative Efficiencies of Different Tree-Making Methods for Molecular Data

1991 • 88 citations

Homoplasy in molecular vs. morphological data: The likelihood of correct phylogenetic inference

1997 • 78 citations

The Use of Chloroplast DNA to Assess Biogeography and Evolution of Morphology, Breeding Systems, and Flavonoids in Fuchsia sect, Skinnera (Onagraceae)

1991 • 72 citations

Progress and Prospects in Reconstructing Plant Phylogeny

1994 • 71 citations

Homoplasy Slope Ratio: A Better Measurement of Observed Homoplasy in Cladistic Analyses

1991 • 58 citations

Recognizing the forest for the trees: testing temporal patterns of cladogenesis using a null model of stochastic diversification

1996 • 44 citations

THE USE OF NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE DATA IN PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION

1988 • 42 citations

Homoplasy Slope Ratio: A Better Measurement of Observed Homoplasy in Cladistic Analyses

1991 • 41 citations

COMPLEXITY AND HOMOLOGY IN PLANTS

1994 • 30 citations

Molecules and morphology: Congruence of data inColumnea (Gesneriaceae)

1994 • 27 citations

Towards Molecular Genetics in Clarkia: Gene Duplications and Molecular Characterization of PGI Genes

1988 • 23 citations

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS IN GREEN PLANTS—A COMMENT ON THE USE OF 5S RIBOSOMAL RNA SEQUENCES BY BREMER ET AL.

1988 • 17 citations