In this presentation, I explored the Jukes-Cantor model (JC69), a foundational model in molecular evolution that assumes equal mutation rates among all four nucleotides. Under the supervision of Prof.
Results of Shimodaira-Hasegawa tests of two constrained alternate topologies to an unconstrained maximum likelihood analysis based on the combined mitochondrial and nuclear dataset.
The reconstruction of the Tree of Life has relied almost entirely on concatenation methods, which do not accommodate gene tree heterogeneity, a property that simulations and theory have identified as
It has been proposed that supertree approaches should be applied to large multilocus sequence datasets to achieve computational tractability. Large datasets such as those derived from phylogenomics s