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. 1982 Jan 11;10(1):421–431. doi: 10.1093/nar/10.1.421

A strategy for sequence phylogeny research.

D Sankoff, R J Cedergren, W McKay
PMCID: PMC326143  PMID: 6917153

Abstract

Minimal mutation trees, and almost minimal trees, are constructed from two data sets, one of phenylalanine tRNA sequences, and the other of 5S RNA sequences, from a diverse range of organisms. The two sets of results are mutually consistent. Trees representing previous evolutionary hypotheses are compared using a total weighted mutational distance criterion. The importance of sequence data from relatively little-studed phylogenetic lines is stressed. A procedure is illustrated which circumvents the computational difficulty of evaluating the astronomically large number of possible trees, without resorting to suboptimal methods.

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