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The first heuristic for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from gene order data was introduced by Blanchette et al. It sought to reconstruct the breakpoint phytogeny and was applied to a variety of datasets. We present a new heuristic for estimating the breakpoint phylogeny which, although not polynomial-time, is much faster in practice than BPAnalysis. We use this heuristic to conduct a phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast genomes in the flowering plant family Campanulaceae. We also present and discuss the results of experimentation on this real dataset with three methods: our new method, BPAnalysis, and the neighbor-joining method, using breakpoint distances, inversion distances, and inversion plus transposition distances.
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Cosner, M.E. et al. (2000). An Empirical Comparison of Phylogenetic Methods on Chloroplast Gene Order Data in Campanulaceae. In: Sankoff, D., Nadeau, J.H. (eds) Comparative Genomics. Computational Biology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4309-7_11
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