Invariable Sites Models and Their Use in Phylogeny Reconstruction

Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods will be Positively Misleading

1978 • 2,881 citations

SplitsTree: analyzing and visualizing evolutionary data.

1998 • 1,561 citations

Among-site rate variation and its impact on phylogenetic analyses

1996 • 1,204 citations

Recovering evolutionary trees under a more realistic model of sequence evolution.

1994 • 992 citations

The Strepsiptera Problem: Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insect Orders Inferred from 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA Sequences and Morphology

1997 • 905 citations

A Framework for the Quantitative Study of Evolutionary Trees

1989 • 833 citations

Split decomposition: A new and useful approach to phylogenetic analysis of distance data

1992 • 504 citations

An improved method for determining codon variability in a gene and its application to the rate of fixation of mutations in evolution

1970 • 469 citations

Reconstructing evolutionary trees from DNA and proteinsequences: paralinear distances.

1994 • 443 citations

Recovering a tree from the leaf colourations it generates under a Markov model

1994 • 332 citations

How good are deep phylogenetic trees?

1998 • 324 citations

Is the Felsenstein Zone a Fly Trap?

1997 • 271 citations

General Inconsistency Conditions for Maximum Parsimony: Effects of Branch Lengths and Increasing Numbers of Taxa

1996 • 227 citations

Evolution of chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll: the problem of invariant sites in sequence analysis.

1996 • 224 citations

Confidence in evolutionary trees from biological sequence data

1993 • 186 citations

Using Novel Phylogenetic Methods to Evaluate Mammalian mtDNA, Including Amino Acid-Invariant Sites-LogDet plus Site Stripping, to Detect Internal Conflicts in the Data, with Special Reference to the Positions of Hedgehog, Armadillo, and Elephant

1999 • 174 citations

Systematic bias in phylogenetic analysis: is the Strepsiptera problem solved?

1998 • 164 citations

Heterogeneity in the substitution process of amino acid sites of proteins coded for by mitochondrial DNA

1992 • 153 citations

A covariotide model explains apparent phylogenetic structure of oxygenic photosynthetic lineages

1998 • 141 citations

Testing the covarion hypothesis of molecular evolution.

1995 • 117 citations

An episodic change of rDNA nucleotide substitution rate has occurred during the emergence of the insect order Diptera

1997 • 105 citations

Evidence from nuclear sequences that invariable sites should be considered when sequence divergence is calculated.

1989 • 97 citations

Improved dating of the human/chimpanzee separation in the mitochondrial DNA tree: Heterogeneity among amino acid sites

1995 • 94 citations

Hierarchical analysis of variation in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene among Hymenoptera

1998 • 86 citations

The effect of topology on estimates of among-site rate variation

1996 • 85 citations

Hadamard Conjugations and Modeling Sequence Evolution with Unequal Rates across Sites

1997 • 77 citations

Sample size for a phylogenetic inference.

1992 • 46 citations

Statistical methods of phylogenetic analysis : including Hadamard conjugations, LogDet transforms and maximum likelihood : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in Biology at Massey University

1995 • 38 citations

Estimating the fraction of invariable codons with a capture-recapture method

1992 • 35 citations

The importance of base composition in the correct assessment of genetic distance

1995 • 21 citations

Corrected Parsimony, Minimum Evolution, and Hadamard Conjugations

1996 • 21 citations

Unbiased Estimation of Symmetrical Directional Mutation Pressure from Protein-Coding DNA

1997 • 16 citations