A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa...
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phylogenetic tree—a diagram setting the hypothetical relationships between organisms and their evolutionary history. The tips of a phylogenetic tree can...
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achieved. The result of a molecular phylogenetic analysis is expressed in a phylogenetic tree. Molecular phylogenetics is one aspect of molecular systematics...
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The Open Tree of Life is an online phylogenetic tree of life – a collaborative effort, funded by the National Science Foundation. The first draft, including...
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languages analogous to the concept of a family tree, particularly a phylogenetic tree in the biological evolution of species. As with species, each language...
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algorithms, heuristics, and approaches involved in phylogenetic analyses. The goal is to find a phylogenetic tree representing optimal evolutionary ancestry between...
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This list of phylogenetic tree viewing software is a compilation of software tools and web portals used in visualizing phylogenetic trees. 1 "All" refers...
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originated in the medieval era to represent genealogical relationships. Phylogenetic tree diagrams in the evolutionary sense date back to the mid-nineteenth...
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Clade (category Phylogenetics)
composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. In the taxonomical literature, sometimes the Latin form cladus (plural...
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In phylogenetics and computational phylogenetics, maximum parsimony is an optimality criterion under which the phylogenetic tree that minimizes the total...
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