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Countering concerted homoplasy
Author(s) -
Harris Simon R,
Wilkinson Mark,
Marques Antonio C
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
cladistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.323
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1096-0031
pISSN - 0748-3007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2003.tb00300.x
Subject(s) - cladistics , phylogenetics , evolutionary biology , biology , genetics , gene
Concerted homoplasy is a concern in phylogenetics because of its potential to generate strong but misleading evidence of relationships. Marques and Gnaspini (Cladistics 17, 371–381, 2001) proposed a method of recoding characters suspected of concerted homoplasy that avoids problems associated with their wholesale exclusion or inclusion. Here we show that the proposed method is analytically equivalent to excluding the recoded characters.