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Universal Artifacts Affect the Branching of Phylogenetic Trees, Not Universal Scaling Laws

BACKGROUND: The superficial resemblance of phylogenetic trees to other branching structures allows searching for macroevolutionary patterns. However, such trees are just statistical inferences of particular historical events. Recent meta-analyses report finding regularities in the branching pattern...

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Autor principal: Altaba, Cristian R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19242549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004611