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long branch attraction: a standalone construct

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long branchattraction1 CONSTRUCTLong branch attractionFELSENSTEIN · EVOLUTIONARY

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Evolutionary biology

a systematic error in tree building where rapidly evolving lineages are wrongly grouped together because of convergent changes, notably under parsimony.

In evolutionary biology, long branch attraction refers to a systematic error in tree building where rapidly evolving lineages are wrongly grouped together because of convergent changes, notably under parsimony. This meaning comes from Felsenstein (1978) in Systematic Zoology.[1]

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attraction3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructserror4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsparsimony1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · one word, several carriers

References

  1. Felsenstein, J. (1978). Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods Will be Positively Misleading. Systematic Zoology, 27(4), 401. https://doi.org/10.2307/2412923

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