Jack Sullivan

Performance-Based Selection of Likelihood Models for Phylogeny Estimation

Phylogenetic estimation has largely come to rely on explicitly model-based methods. This approach requires that a model be chosen and that that choice be justified. To date, jus...

Model Selection in Phylogenetics

▪ Abstract Investigation into model selection has a long history in the statistical literature. As model-based approaches begin dominating systematic biology, increased attentio...

Evolution of the Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase II Gene in Collembola

Accounting for Uncertainty in the Tree Topology Has Little Effect on the Decision-Theoretic Approach to Model Selection in Phylogeny Estimation

Currently available methods for model selection used in phylogenetic analysis are based on an initial fixed-tree topology. Once a model is picked based on this topology, a rigor...

Phylogeography and Molecular Systematics of the Peromyscus aztecus Species Group (Rodentia: Muridae) Inferred Using Parsimony and Likelihood

Mice of the Peromyscus aztecus species group occur at mid to high elevations in several mountain ranges in the highlands of Middle America (Mexico and Central America), a region...