Reticulation inside the Species Boundary |
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Authors: | PE Smouse |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources, Cook College, Rutgers University, |
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Abstract: | gene trees and species trees. We construct
different lineage histories for different genes, in spite of the
fact that intragenic recombination ensures that building a
gene tree can become an exercise in averaging over
disparate (and reticulating) segmental phylogenies. Combining data
across disparate gene trees leads to an average
species tree, but whether that represents anything real is
dubious. Another ploy is to study mitochondrial and/or chloroplast
genomes, confidently asserted to be inherited in strictly lineal
fashion, without recombination. Evidence is mounting, however, that
even these organellar elements have recombination and that their
phylogenies are reticulate. Given the generally reticulate process
of evolution at the subspecific level, we should model the
collection of relationships more as a redundant and multiply
connected network than as a strictly radiating phylogeny. |
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