Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support tree-thinking?
This provocatively entitled paper by Bapteste et al. has just been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology. The authors conclude: Our phylogenetic analyses do not support tree-thinking. These results have important conceptual and practical implications. We argue that representations other than a tree should be investigated in this case because a non-critical concatenation of markers could be highly misleading.
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