Weighted compromise trees: a method to summarize competing phylogenetic hypotheses.

作者信息

Sharkey Michael J, Stoelb Stephanie, Miranda-Esquivel Daniel R, Sharanowski Barabara J

机构信息

University of Kentucky, Department of Entomology, S225 Agricultural Science Center North, Lexington, KY 40546-0091, USA.

Laboratorio de Sistemática y Biogeografía, Escuela de Biología, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia.

出版信息

Cladistics. 2013 Jun;29(3):309-314. doi: 10.1111/cla.12000. Epub 2012 Oct 9.

DOI:10.1111/cla.12000

PMID:34809409

Abstract

A new consensus method for summarizing competing phylogenetic hypotheses, weighted compromise, is described. The method corrects for a bias inherent in majority-rule consensus/compromise trees when the source trees exhibit non-independence due to ambiguity in terminal clades. Suggestions are given for its employment in parsimony analyses and tree resampling strategies such as bootstrapping and jackknifing. An R function is described that can be used with the programming language R to produce the consensus.

摘要