Circumstances in Which Parsimony but not Compatibility will be Provably Misleading
Circumstances in Which Parsimony but not Compatibility will be Provably Misleading
Phylogenetic methods typically rely on an appropriate model of how data evolved in order to infer an accurate phylogenetic tree. For molecular data, standard statistical methods have provided an effective strategy for extracting phylogenetic information from aligned sequence data when each site (character) is subject to a common process. However, …