Optimality criterion under which the phylogenetic tree that minimizes the total number of character-state changes is to be preferred; under this criterion, the shortest possible tree that explains the data is considered best.
A maximumparsimony-based algorithm for reconstructing ancestral position-specific scoring matrices suggested that the ancestral 5'ss and BS were degenerate, as in metazoans.
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A number of geographically isolated evolutionary lineages were supported by both maximumparsimony and neighbor-joining analyses, and by coalescence approaches applied to mtDNA.
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We investigated the origin and diversification of the high-affinity nitrate transporter NRT2 in fungi and other eukaryotes using Bayesian and maximumparsimony methods.
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The seven genotypes were evident by both distance matrix methods and maximumparsimony analysis, and were strongly supported by bootstrap resampling of the data.
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A maximumparsimony analysis of the available M gene nucleotide sequences allowed the construction of a tree with at least three lineages or subtypes.
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Maximumparsimony phylogenetic analyses, as well as Neighbor-Joining distance analyses, of numerous chitinases confirmed that the GhCTL group is distinct.