In article <451hke$da4 at hearst.cac.psu.edu>,
Spencer Muse <muse at kurtz.bio.psu.edu> wrote:
>>Second, let me suggest an application where compatibility analysis is
>desirable. This is the problem of studying recombination in intra-
>specific samples of DNA. Ignoring the effect of back mutations, all
>individual sites within a block of DNA that has not undergone a
>recombination event should be compatible with the same tree.
A bibliographic footnote: this fact was first noted by Sneath, Sackin,
and Ambler in a paper in Systematic Zoology, 1975. They used the
term "hybridization" rather then recombination, but the logic was the
same.
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