A New Information Theoretic Approach Shows that Mixture Models Outperform Partition Models for Phylogenetic Analyses of Amino Acid Data
Huaiyan Ren, Changsen Jiang, Thomas K. F. Wong, Yutong Shao, Edward Susko, Bùi Quang Minh, Robert Lanfear
The paper compares mixture and partition models for phylogenetic analyses using the mAIC and finds mixture models consistently outperform partition models.
bioRxiv · Oct 26, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology