Open AccessBushes in the Tree of Life
Author(s) -
Antonis Rokas,
Sean B. Carroll
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040352
Subject(s) - biology , tree of life (biology) , phylogenetic tree , tree (set theory) , limit (mathematics) , evolutionary biology , phylogenetics , combinatorics , genetics , mathematics , gene , mathematical analysis
A discussion of how homoplasy (the frequency of independently evolved characters) and the spacing of cladogenetic events limit our ability to reconstruct the tree of life using existing phylogenetic methods.
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