International Journal of Plant Genomics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 683509, 16 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/683509
Review Article

Phylogenetic Analyses: A Toolbox Expanding towards Bayesian Methods

Stéphane Aris-Brosou1,2 and Xuhua Xia1

1Department of Biology, Centre for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, University of Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada

Received 30 November 2007; Accepted 12 February 2008

Academic Editor: Chunguang Du

Copyright © 2008 Stéphane Aris-Brosou and Xuhua Xia. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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