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Molecular biologists interested in the evolution of gene families and molecular systematists interested in the evolution of whole organisms are both concerned with the relationship between gene phylogenies and organism phy-logenies. We present reconciled trees as a tool for exploring this relationship. In discussing recent developments, we focus on techniques which enable researchers to take account of uncertainty in the underlying gene phylogenies and to locate gene duplications and episodes of gene duplication on the species tree. Implementation of these methods should allow rapid, automated analysis of large sets of gene families and even of whole genomes, producing well supported organism phylogenies and allowing us to quantitatively investigate patterns of gene family evolution.
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Page, R.D.M., Cotton, J.A. (2000). Genetree: A Tool for Exploring Gene Family Evolution. 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_45
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