Highly incomplete taxa can rescue phylogenetic analyses from the negative impacts of limited taxon sampling.
<h4>Background</h4>Phylogenies are essential to many areas of biology, but phylogenetic methods may give incorrect estimates under some conditions. A potentially common scenario of this type is when few taxa are sampled and terminal branches for the sampled taxa are relatively long. Howe...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22900065/pdf/?tool=EBI |