Example sentences for: maximum-likelihood

How can you use “maximum-likelihood” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The same tree topology was supported by both neighbor-joining and maximum-likelihood trees, though lack of a clear ortholog from a more distant organism (for example, a deuterostome) makes this type of assessment, regarding gene history, more difficult.

  • Phylogenetic analysis was carried out using the maximum-likelihood, neighbor-joining and least-squares methods [ 49, 50].

  • The resulting maximum-likelihood tree contains the complete proteobacterial and Gram-positive bacterial clusters as well as the spirochete-chlamydia cluster noticed in the genome-trees.

  • A greater number of genes within a given family in Anopheles compared to Drosophila can be a result of gene expansion in Anopheles or, alternatively, gene loss in Drosophila . I considered the likelihood of either possibility for these cases, based on the trees that were constructed using neighbor-joining, parsimony, and maximum-likelihood algorithms.

  • Maximum-likelihood maps were generated using GNUPlot v. 3.7 http://www.gnuplot.info/.


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