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Character-State Weighting for Restriction Site Data in Phylogenetic Reconstruction, with an Example from Chloroplast DNA

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Molecular Systematics of Plants

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Data derived from cleavage points of various restriction endonucleases in all three genomes present in eukaryotes—nuclear, mitochondrial, and chloroplast— have been used for phylogenetic reconstruction in diverse groups of organisms. Mapped restriction sites, which represent a sampling of a whole genome or of any specific sequence, can be considered estimates of homologous characters and their transformations. In this sense, restriction site data are like any other robustly derived systematic data (e.g., morphological). An important difference is that probabilities for character-state transformations within restriction site characters can now be formulated using hypothetical or empirical estimates of sequence evolution (DeBry and Slade, 1985). Such transformational probabilities can be incorporated into phylogenetic reconstruction using parsimony with the application of maximum likelihood character-state weights (Felsenstein, 1981a).

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Albert, V.A., Mishler, B.D., Chase, M.W. (1992). Character-State Weighting for Restriction Site Data in Phylogenetic Reconstruction, with an Example from Chloroplast DNA. In: Soltis, P.S., Soltis, D.E., Doyle, J.J. (eds) Molecular Systematics of Plants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3276-7_16

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