Running head. SELECTING TAXA TO SAVE OR SEQUENCE Selecting Taxa to Save or Sequence: Desirable Criteria and a Greedy Solution
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— Three desirable properties for any method of selecting a subset of evolutionary units (EUs) for conservation or for genomic sequencing are discussed. These properties are: spread, stability, and applicability. We are motivated by a practical case in which the maximization of phylogenetic diversity (PD), which has been suggested as a suitable method, appears to lead to counter-intuitive collections of EUs and does not meet these three criteria. We define 1
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Selecting taxa to save or sequence: desirable criteria and a greedy solution.
Three desirable properties for any method of selecting a subset of evolutionary units (EUs) for conservation or for genomic sequencing are discussed. These properties are spread, stability, and applicability. We are motivated by a practical case in which the maximization of phylogenetic diversity (PD), which has been suggested as a suitable method, appears to lead to counterintuitive collection...
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