
Tuffley and Steel (1997) proved that Maximum Likelihood and Maximum Parsimony methods in phylogenetics are equivalent for sequences of characters under a simple symmetric model of substitution with no common mechanism. This result has been widely cited ever since. We show that small changes to the model assumptions suffice to make the two methods inequivalent. In particular, we analyze the case of bounded substitution probabilities as well as the molecular clock assumption. We show that in these cases, even under no common mechanism, Maximum Parsimony and Maximum Likelihood might make conflicting choices. We also show that if there is an upper bound on the substitution probabilities which is `sufficiently small', every Maximum Likelihood tree is also a Maximum Parsimony tree (but not vice versa).
Models, Statistical, Base Sequence, Models, Genetic, Applications of graph theory, Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE), molecular clock, Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis, phylogenetics, Problems related to evolution, FOS: Biological sciences, maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution, Phylogeny
Models, Statistical, Base Sequence, Models, Genetic, Applications of graph theory, Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE), molecular clock, Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis, phylogenetics, Problems related to evolution, FOS: Biological sciences, maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution, Phylogeny
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