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Are Guinea Pigs Rodents? The Importance of Adequate Models in Molecular Phylogenetics

J. Sullivan, D. Swofford

1997.6.1JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

DOI: 10.1023/a:1027314112438

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The monophyly of Rodentia has repeatedly been challenged based on several studies of molecular sequence data and it is shown that models that incorporate variation in evolutionary rates across sites fit the data dramatically better than models used in the original analyses.

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SULLIVAN, J.; SWOFFORD, D. Are guinea pigs rodents? The importance of adequate models in molecular phylogenetics. JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION, 1997, 4: 77–86.