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Phylogenetic Analysis

Phylogenetic analysis reconstructs the evolutionary history of organisms, genes, or proteins by comparing molecular sequence data and estimating the branching tree that best explains observed similarities and differences. Rooted in the work of Felsenstein and colleagues from the 1960s onward, it is a cornerstone technique in evolutionary biology, microbiology, epidemiology, and comparative genomics, supporting tasks from tracing viral outbreak origins to classifying novel species.

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Phylogenetic Analysis of Molecular Sequence Data
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / bioinformatics
  • Felsenstein, J. (2004). Inferring Phylogenies. Sinauer Associates. · ISBN 978-0878931774
  • Felsenstein, J. (1981). Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 17(6), 368-376. · URL
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