Rooting Gene Trees without Outgroups: EP Rooting
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Rooting Gene Trees without Outgroups: EP Rooting
Gene sequences are routinely used to determine the topologies of unrooted phylogenetic trees, but many of the most important questions in evolution require knowing both the topologies and the roots of trees. However, general algorithms for calculating rooted trees from gene and genomic sequences in the absence of gene paralogs are few. Using the principles of evolutionary parsimony (EP) (Lake J...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genome Biology and Evolution
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1759-6653
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evs047