Choosing and Using Introns in Molecular Phylogenetics
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Choosing and Using Introns in Molecular Phylogenetics
Introns are now commonly used in molecular phylogenetics in an attempt to recover gene trees that are concordant with species trees, but there are a range of genomic, logistical and analytical considerations that are infrequently discussed in empirical studies that utilize intron data. This review outlines expedient approaches for locus selection, overcoming paralogy problems, recombination det...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolutionary Bioinformatics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1176-9343,1176-9343
DOI: 10.1177/117693430700300011