New preprint! For years, we had worried that Dollo parsimony, which is based on principles developed for morphological characters, was not an appropriate choice for ancestral gene content reconstruction based on sequence homology. Now we can say: it’s not! doi.org/10.1101/2023... #protistsonsky
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Dollo parsimony overestimates ancestral gene content reconstructions
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