SPRTA: A smarter way to measure evolution uncertainty

When COVID-19 arrived, researchers tried to build evolutionary family trees—known as phylogenetic trees—of the virus. These ...
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The Accuracy of Phylogenetic Estimation Using the Neighbor-Joining Method

We studied the factors affecting the accuracy of the neighbor-joining (NJ) method for estimating phylogenies by simulating character change under different evolutionary models applied to twenty ...
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Software, evolution and micro-inversions -- improving the building of phylogenetic trees

Biologists will be able to reconstruct the process of evolution, determine relationships between species and build phylogenetic trees with greater accuracy thanks to a new method for identifying ...

Termite 'jumping genes' provide template to resolve tree of life

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...
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Phenetic Similarity and Phylogenetic Relationships Among Strains of Oryza perennis, Estimated by Methods of Numerical Taxonomy

Oryza perennis Moench is distributed throughout the humid tropics, and its Asian form may be the progenitor of cultivated rice, O. sativa L. Data for 24 characters of 65 strains of this species were ...