Can comprehensive background knowledge be incorporated into substitution models to improve phylogenetic analyses? A case study on major arthropod relationships

• Published in: BMC evolutionary biology Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 119
• Main Authors: von Reumont, Björn M, Meusemann, Karen, Szucsich, Nikolaus U, Dell'Ampio, Emiliano, Gowri-Shankar, Vivek, Bartel, Daniela, Simon, Sabrina, Letsch, Harald O, Stocsits, Roman R, Luan, Yun-xia, Wägele, Johann, Pass, Günther, Hadrys, Heike, Misof, Bernhard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 27.05.2009; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Analysis; Animals; Arthropoda; Arthropods - genetics; Case studies; Cladistic analysis; Evolution, Molecular; Genetic aspects; Genetic variation; Information management; Models, Genetic; Natural history; Nucleic Acid Conformation; Phylogeny; RNA processing; RNA, Ribosomal, 18S - genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 28S - genetics; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Analysis, RNA - methods

Whenever different data sets arrive at conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses, only testable causal explanations of sources of errors in at least one of the data sets allow us to critically choose among the conflicting hypotheses of relationships. The large (28S) and small (18S) subunit rRNAs are among...