BIOL 3040 Lecture Notes - Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Phylogeography
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5. 1 building trees: compare the four techniques for building phylogenetic trees, parsimony, distance methods, maximum likelihood, bayesian inference. 5. 2 parsimony: what is the fundamental idea behind the parsimony method of building phylogenetic trees, given several phylogenetic trees with character data included, choose the best hypothesis based on the data using the parsimony method. 5. 3 rooting trees: given an unrooted phylogeny with an outgroup, redraw the tree as a rooted phylogeny, explain how a rooted phylogeny was used to explain the magpie phylogeography. 5. 4 distance methods: what are the types of data used to determine distances for constructing phylogenetic trees, explain how pairwise distances between species are used to construct a phylogeny. 5. 6 phylogenies and statistical confidence: describe the bootstrap resampling procedure, how are bootstrap values at nodes interpreted, given a phylogeny, interpret the level of support for a clade using the bootstrap support values.
