Can We "Future-Proof" Consensus Trees?

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Can We "Future-Proof" Consensus Trees?

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

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Consensus methods are widely used for combining phylogenetic trees into a single estimate of the evolutionary tree for a group of species. As more taxa are added, the new source trees may begin to tell a different evolutionary story when restricted to the original set of taxa. However, if the new trees, restricted to the original set of taxa, were to agree exactly with the earlier trees, then we might hope that their consensus would either agree with or resolve the original consensus tree. In...

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Article

Date created

2017-07-19

Creator

Bryant, David / Francis, Andrew / Steel, Mike

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/27748

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Evolutionary Biology / Life Sciences & Biomedicine / Science & Technology

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