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Profiling phylogenetic informativeness

JeffTownsend submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.informaworld.com)

This article lays out a method for describing the utility of a marker for phylogenetic inference during specified historical epochs. It may be useful for phylogenetic experimental design (i.e. what characters or character sets to sample) or for understanding the contribution of different partitions of your data (e.g. genes) to the resolution you achieve.

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Assessing the Determinants of Evolutionary Rates in the Presence of Noise

julie submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (mbe.oxfordjournals.org)

"Although protein sequences are known to evolve at vastly different rates, little is known about what determines their rate of evolution."

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