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Re: Bootstrap analysis question.
david peters (davidrpeters@earthlink.net) wrote:
<Can a bootstrap analysis be performed on it using PAUP?
And if so, what are the steps?>
Bootstrapping is a PAUP feature, but is also found in a few other programs
such as Clustal, MEGA, etc., which are less used by the phylogenetics recovery
nerds. If it takes that long to boostrap, you have too many variables and
unknowns, and the likely result will be a complete collapse of all nodes in the
resulting tree. That is, a confidence of 0 in any node. This usually results
from a high proportion of "?".
Cheers,
Jaime A. Headden
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