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Independent contrasts succeed where ancestor reconstruction fails in a known bacteriophage phylogeny.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2000
Oakley T H, Cunningham C W
Abstract excerpt
Methods of ancestor reconstruction are important tools for evolutionary inference that are difficult to test empirically because ancestral states are rarely known with certainty. We evaluated reconstruction methods for continuous phenotypic characters using taxa from an experimentally generated bacteriophage phylogeny. Except for one slowly evolving character, the estimated ancestral states of continuous...
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