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Message 46 of 51 (33530)
03-03-2003 9:12 AM


MPG advocates not good at detecting patterns
Fortunately, there are many phylogeny programs that are.
Even more fortunately, there are systematists that can present data for which computer analysis need not be required. My linked to alignment, for example.
I guess a 40 million year split wasn't quite good enough...

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Message 47 of 51 (33531)
03-03-2003 9:15 AM


And another thing...
I suggest that Borger take a gander at the links Dr.Caporale presented in regards to the topic of 'non-random mutation' affecting phylogenetic analyses.
As has been so often been shown to be the case, the issue is not quite what Borger insisted it is.

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Message 48 of 51 (33533)
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Re: MPG advocates not good at detecting patterns
Hi Scott,
I'm trying to make sure this thread can be followed by others. The link you're referring to is this one:
There's no key for how to interpret it.
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Re: And another thing...
SLPx writes:
I suggest that Borger take a gander at the links Dr.Caporale presented in regards to the topic of 'non-random mutation' affecting phylogenetic analyses.
I'm guessing that the links you're referring to are those that appeared in Message 24 of the Darwin in the Genome thread. Here they are again:
Could you summarize how these abstracts bear on the discussion?
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Message 50 of 51 (33613)
03-04-2003 9:12 AM
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Re: MPG advocates not good at detecting patterns
One can go here:
http://www2.norwich.edu/spage/alignment1.htm
for a quick primer.
Basically, the 'letters' you can see represent the nucleotides in the sequence that differ from the top sequence (reference sequence).
At 21 sites in, you can see a number of species have an 'A', for example. All of them happen to be Old World monkeys.
Such patterns can be found throughout the alignment.

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Message 51 of 51 (33614)
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Re: And another thing...
The abstracts linked to by Dr.Caporale deal with the potential difficutlis in phylogenetic analyses due to non-random mutations and other occurrances that can obscure 'true' phylogentic reconstruction. The abstracts, however, iindicate that while there are potential problems, sufficiently large datasets and programs that take such possibilities into account can compensate.
That is, it "non-random mutation" is only aproblem for phylogeny if one does not take it into account. Unfortunately for Borger, who claims that NRM essentially falsify all phylogenetic reconstructions, it is at best a minor problem.

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