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Phylogenetic trees made easy : a how-to manual / Barry G. Hall

Read me first! -- Tutorial : estimate a tree! -- Acquiring -- Aligning the sequences -- Major methods for estimating phylogenetic trees -- Neighbor-joining trees -- Drawing phylogenetic trees -- ...
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Phylogenetic Trees and Networks Can Serve as Powerful and Complementary Approaches for Analysis of Genomic Data

Genomic data have had a profound impact on nearly every biological discipline. In systematics and phylogenetics, the thousands of loci that are now being sequenced can be analyzed under the ...

U of I researchers trace genetic code’s origins to early protein structures

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...
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A settled sub-family for the orphan tree: The phylogenetic position of the endemic Colombian genus Orphanodendron in the Leguminosae

Orphanodendron is a taxonomically and geographically isolated South American genus of two species. When first described by Barneby and Grimes in 1990, the genus was placed in Leguminosae subfamily ...
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AIgorithm Helps Evolutionary Biologists See Where Bird Species Are Perched on Phylogenetic Tree

Just as bird watchers may use binoculars to add to their species lists, scientists interested in bird evolution may use computational tools to clarify avian lineages. Indeed, such tools have enabled ...
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Recombination most often occurs on the COVID-19 phylogenetic tree in the form of 'long branches'

An analysis of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes finds that recombination of the virus is uncommon, but when it occurs, it is most often in the spike protein region, the area which allows the virus to ...