CINBIO, Universidade de Vigo, 36310, Vigo, Spain.
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Immunology, Universidade de Vigo, 36310, Vigo, Spain.
J Mol Evol. 2021 Apr;89(3):134-145. doi: 10.1007/s00239-020-09982-w. Epub 2021 Jan 13.
In 1981, the Journal of Molecular Evolution (JME) published an article entitled "Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach" by Joseph (Joe) Felsenstein (J Mol Evol 17:368-376, 1981). This groundbreaking work laid the foundation for the emerging field of statistical phylogenetics, providing a tractable way of finding maximum likelihood (ML) estimates of evolutionary trees from DNA sequence data. This paper is the second most cited (more than 9000 citations) in JME after Kimura's (J Mol Evol 16:111-120, 1980) seminal paper on a model of nucleotide substitution (with nearly 20,000 citations). On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of JME, we elaborate on the significance of Felsenstein's ML approach to estimating phylogenetic trees.
1981 年,《分子进化杂志》(JME)发表了一篇题为“从 DNA 序列推断进化树:最大似然法”的文章,作者是约瑟夫(乔)·费森斯坦(J Mol Evol 17:368-376, 1981)。这项开创性的工作为新兴的统计系统发生学领域奠定了基础,为从 DNA 序列数据中寻找进化树的最大似然(ML)估计提供了一种可行的方法。这篇论文是 JME 继木村(J Mol Evol 16:111-120, 1980)关于核苷酸替代模型的开创性论文(引用次数超过 20,000 次)之后,被引用次数第二多的论文(超过 9000 次引用)。在 JME 创刊 50 周年之际,我们详细阐述了费森斯坦(Felsenstein)用最大似然法估计系统发育树的重要意义。