Incongruence Length Difference ( ILD ) test - or - Partition homogeneity test

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)…

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The incongruence length difference (ILD) test is prone to suggesting significant conflict between character partitions when these differ only in the amount of undirected homoplasy (noise). This has been shown to be due to nonlinearity in the…

Phylogenies inferred from independent data partitions usually differ from one another in topology despite the fact that they are drawn from the same set of organisms (Rodrigo et al., 1993). Some topological differences are due to sampling error or…

Until recently, the majority of research on the biological control of aerial plant diseases was focused on control of bacterial pathogens, Such research led to the commercialization of the biocontrol agent Pseudomonas fluorescens A506, as BlightBan…

Incongruence between data sets is an important concept in molecular phylogenetics and is commonly measured by the incongruence length difference (ILD) test (J. S. Farris et al., Cladistics 10, 315-319). The ILD test has been used to infer specific…

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…

Particular serovars of Salmonella enterica have emerged as significant foodborne pathogens in humans. At the chromosomal level, discrete regions in the Salmonella genome have been identified that are known to play important roles in the maintenance,…

Comprehensive phylogenetic analyses utilize data from distinct sources, including nuclear, mitochondrial, and plastid molecular sequences and morphology. Such heterogeneous datasets are likely to require distinct models of analysis, given the…

The incongruence length difference (ILD) randomisation test of Farris et al. (1995a, 1995b) is often applied to systematic datasets comprising qualitatively or logically distinct data partitions (e.g., molecules and morphology, different loci). It…