Dear phylogeneticists
I am currently doing a classification analysis on morphologic data using
modern methods of morphometry (procruste analysis).
The variables obtained are quantitative and I would like to use them in a
phylogenetic approach.
For this purpose I used 2 methods:
1) maximum likelihood with the software phylips and its contml add on;
2) cladistic analysis on quantitative variables, with the software TNT
developed by Goloboff, Farris and Nixon.
I am wondering if the max likelihood is really performing a phylogenetic
classification or if it is rather a kind of phenetic method. Maybe the
answer may vary according to whom I ask the question
?
I have submitted an article presenting the max likelihood as a phylogenetic
classification but the reviewers are challenging this assertion.
Thank you for your answers
Stéphane BOUEE, MNHN, France
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