Morphological and molecular convergences in mammalian phylogenetics

Morphological and molecular convergences in mammalian phylogenetics

Morphological characters are generally thought to have higher rates of convergence than molecular characters. Here, Zou and Zhang provide empirical evidence for this assumption and devise a method to improve the accuracy of phylogenetic reconstruction through identifying and removing convergence-pro...

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Main Authors: Zhengting Zou, Jianzhi Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12758
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spelling doaj-b2624c7035ef423fbdf51d02058078462021-05-11T10:39:55ZengNature Publishing GroupNature Communications2041-17232016-09-01711910.1038/ncomms12758Morphological and molecular convergences in mammalian phylogeneticsZhengting Zou0Jianzhi Zhang1Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of MichiganDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of MichiganMorphological characters are generally thought to have higher rates of convergence than molecular characters. Here, Zou and Zhang provide empirical evidence for this assumption and devise a method to improve the accuracy of phylogenetic reconstruction through identifying and removing convergence-prone characters.https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12758
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title_short Morphological and molecular convergences in mammalian phylogenetics
title_full Morphological and molecular convergences in mammalian phylogenetics
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description Morphological characters are generally thought to have higher rates of convergence than molecular characters. Here, Zou and Zhang provide empirical evidence for this assumption and devise a method to improve the accuracy of phylogenetic reconstruction through identifying and removing convergence-prone characters.
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