phylogenetic inference
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inference
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a guess that you make or an opinion that you form based on the information that ...
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The variability in flanking regions was informative forphylogeneticinferenceand their evolutionary content.
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Although the time required is a valid criticism of a method ofphylogeneticinference, it is a less serious a problem than the quality.
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Launching microsatellites : a review of mutation processes and methods ofphylogeneticinference.
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Phylogeneticinferenceis a key approach for historical aspects of evolutionary hypotheses, particularly testing evolutionary scenarios, and such "tree-thinking" investigation is directly relevant to the aptationist program.
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A combined approach usedphylogeneticinferencebased information of the different species and plotted the protein sequence types onto the phylogenetic tree of the species.
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Clarifying the role of character loss inphylogeneticinference.
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It is often stated that parsimony is not relevant tophylogeneticinferencebecause evolution is not parsimonious.
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The developments of extensive genomic sequence databases in conjunction with advances in biotechnology andphylogeneticinferencemethods have made ancestral reconstruction cheap, fast, and scientifically practical.
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From the time of his original formulation until the end of the 1970s, cladistics competed as an analytical and philosophical approach tophylogeneticinferencewith phenetics and so-called evolutionary taxonomy.
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If these were the only data available, maximum parsimony would tend to group crocodiles with humans, and birds with bats (as would any other method ofphylogeneticinference).
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This supports the longstanding phylogenetic inferences of paleornithologists.
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