Concepts of Biology
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ISBN:9781938168116
Author:Samantha Fowler, Rebecca Roush, James Wise
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Chapter12: Diversity Of Life
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Problem 13CTQ: How does a phylogenetic tree indicate major evolutionary events within a lineage?
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Why are the phylogenetic trees generated using MEGA and PhyML different?
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A phylogenetic tree has organisms in a pattern of branching that reflects how species or other groups evolved from a series of common ancestors. The popular phylogenetic programs are:
- Hennig86
- Phylip
- PAUP
- MEGA
- Mesquite
- TNT
- PhyML
- RAxML
- GARLI
- MrBayes
- BEAST
- POY
- Treecon
- NONA
- PAML
- Tree-puzzle
- Treefinder.
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