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We examine ways of testing for the reliability of inference from biological sequence data using sequences from Xiphophorus fishes and newly implemented methodology for sequence analysis. The approach we take provides one means to examine the fit between model and data for different sequences and hence to evaluate heterogeneity between data sets. In the case of the present study we show D-loop sequences to be a better molecule for studying the phylogeny of Xiphophorus fishes than cytochrome b sequences. The results of the split decomposition and spectral analysis confirm an earlier phylogenetic hypothesis which had been based on maximum parsimony, neighbor-joining, maximum likelihood analyses.
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Lockhart, P.J., Penny, D. & Meyer, A. Testing the phylogeny of swordtail fishes using split decomposition and spectral analysis. J Mol Evol 41, 666–674 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00175825
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