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The construction of phylogenetic trees is of interest in its own right in evolutionary studies. It is also useful in many other ways, for example in the prediction of gene function; aspects of this area of the emerging field of phylogenomics are discussed by Eisen (1998).
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Ewens, W.J., Grant, G.R. (2001). Phylogenetic Tree Estimation. In: Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3247-4_14
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