Dear netters,
I came across a dataset of 18S rRNA sequences of algae, where phylogenetic
analysis suggests the following:
A->B->C->D (1)
instead of "normal"
A B C D (2)
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due to zero or almost zero lengths of some branches.
Since the case (1) may be describe realistic evolutionary events, the
questions are:
Is it possible to built a test distinguishing between (1) and (2)?
Did anybody meet and not discard stuation like that?
Thank you in advance
Dmitri Sherbakov
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