Increased Congruence Does Not Necessarily Indicate Increased Phylogenetic Accuracy—The Behavior of the Incongruence Length Difference Test in Mixed-Model Analyses

Congruence versus phylogenetic accuracy: revisiting the incongruence length difference test.

When does the incongruence length difference test fail?

This paper examines the efficiency of the incongruence length difference test (ILD) proposed by Farris et al. (1994) for assessing the incongruence between sets of characters. DNA sequences were simulated under various evolutionary conditions: (1) following symmetric or asymmetric trees, (2) with various mutation rates, (3) with constant or variable evolutionary rates along the branches, and (4...

The utility of the incongruence length difference test.

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Escherichia coli molecular phylogeny using the incongruence length difference test.

Molecular phylogeny of the species Escherichia coli using the E. coli reference (ECOR) collection strains has been hampered by (1) the absence of rooting in the commonly used phenogram obtained from multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE) data and (2) the existence of recombination events between strains that scramble phylogenetic trees reconstructed from the nucleotide sequences of genes. We ...

Response to Winter: 'Hardcore smoking does not necessarily indicate hardening'.

This is a post-print (post-refereed, final accepted) version of the manuscript that has been published in Addiction. The citation details and the link to the final publisher version are below. Docherty, G., McNeill, A., Gartner, C. E. and Szatkowski, L. (2014), Response to Winter: ‘Hardcore smoking does not necessarily indicate hardening’. Addiction, 109: 682. doi: 10.1111/add.12462 Published o...