title: Supertrees join the mainstream of phylogenetics.
abstract: Supertree methods are fairly widely used to build comprehensive phylogenies for particular groups, but concerns remain over the adequacy of existing approaches. Steel and Rodrigo recently introduced a statistical model of incongruence between trees, allowing maximum-likelihood supertree inference. This approach to supertree construction will enable hypothesis-testing and model-choice methods that are now routine in sequence phylogenetics to be applied in this setting, and might form an important part of future phylogenetic inference from genomic data.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. j.a.cotton@qmul.ac.uk
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cotton
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
mesh_terms: D002965:Classification / Q000379:methods*; D010802:Phylogeny