When Outgroups Fail; Phylogenomics of Rooting the Emerging Pathogen, Coxiella burnetii
Rooting phylogenies is critical for understanding evolution, yet the importance, intricacies and difficulties of rooting are often overlooked. For rooting, polymorphic characters among the group of interest (ingroup) must be compared to those of a relative (outgroup) that diverged before the last co...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3739886/ |