MrBayes 3

Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models

Ronquist, Fredrik
Huelsenbeck, John P.

¹Department of Systematic Zoology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyv. 18D, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
²Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA

^*To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Received on December 20, 2002; revised on February 14, 2003; accepted on February 19, 2003

Bioinformatics 19(12):p 1572-1574, August 12, 2003.

Summary

MrBayes 3 performs Bayesian phylogenetic analysis combining information from different data partitions or subsets evolving under different stochastic evolutionary models. This allows the user to analyze heterogeneous data sets consisting of different data types—e.g. morphological, nucleotide, and protein—and to explore a wide variety of structured models mixing partition-unique and shared parameters. The program employs MPI to parallelize Metropolis coupling on Macintosh or UNIX clusters.

Availability

http://morphbank.ebc.uu.se/mrbayes.

Contact

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