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How does PAUP* deal with missing characters under the parsimony criterion?

April 26, 2017characters criterion deal MISSING parsimony paup*

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How does PAUP* deal with missing characters under the parsimony criterion?

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The way that PAUP* deals with missing characters under the parsimony criterion is to assign to the taxa the character state that would be most parsimonious given its placement on the tree. Therefore, only the characters with no missing data will affect the placement of the taxa.