Research article

Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support tree-thinking?

E Bapteste^1,²^*, E Susko^1,³, J Leigh^1,², D MacLeod^1,², RL Charlebois^1,² and WF Doolittle^1,²

¹ GenomeAtlantic, 1721 Lower Water Street, Suite 401, Halifax, NS, B3J 1S5, Canada

² Dalhousie University, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 5850 College St., Halifax, NS, B3H 1X5, Canada

³ Dalhousie University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005, 5:33 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-5-33

Published: 24 May 2005

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The diversity of plausible topologies

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Input trees for the AU test

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