[Mesquitelist] equal likelihood probabilties for internal nodes

[Wayne Maddison]

Could I see a copy of your file, showing the issue?
Wayne

On 27 Jul 2011, at 2:52 AM, Sarah Wagner wrote:

> I just started to use mesquite for ancestral character reconstructions. 
> I would like to use likelihood ancestral states reconstruction on a 
> topology including branch lengths. My dataset just contains 13 taxa and 
> I manually edited the branch lengths (based on MrBays results). For 
> multistate characters I get the same likelihood probabilities for each 
> character state for the inner nodes, which seems to be strange. 
> Parsimony reconstruction on the same topology (without considering 
> branch lengths) does not show a comparable result. Does anybody know, 
> what I´m doing wrong? Is it possible that a high difference between the 
> branch lengths courses that problem?
> Thanks,
> Sarah
> 
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