Sentence examples for by a long branch from inspiring English sources

Since legumes comprise a diverse clade separated by a long branch length from other groups, they can strongly influence patterns of phylogenetic dispersion of plots where they colonize.

However, because acoelomorphs evolve at a very high rate (except perhaps for myosin II), their basal emergence can be easily explained by a long branch attraction (LBA) [10] artefact triggered by the distantly related outgroup (Cnidaria).

Results showed that human and gar genomes clustered together separated from the two teleost genomes by a long branch.

The discrepancy between the two datasets does not seem to be explainable by a long branch attraction artefact.

Then it could happen that one or more sequences in the subtree are connected accidently to the rest by a long branch attraction.

Group II.A is strongly supported, with 100% bootstrap support and is separated by a long branch from other cluster II PA.

A second subclade within clade C (group C2), is separated by a long branch-length and also has robust bootstrap support.

A related method consists in 'breaking' a long branch, by adding a series of intermediate taxa thought to emerge along this branch [ 16].

However, in both these trees, one subclade of Prochlorococcus strains, which is referred to as the low B/A ecotype subgroup [ 40, 41], was separated from all others Prochlorococcus strains by a long-branch.

MIT9515, CCMP1986, MIT9312, MIT9215, MIT9301 and AS9601) formed a distinct subclade that was well separated from all other Clade C species/strains by a long-branch and 100% bootstrap score (Fig. 1 and additional file 2)[ 23, 41].

With a four-taxon example, we show that phylogenetic estimation under the JTT + F + Γ model is seriously biased by a long-branch attraction artefact if the data are simulated under a model utilizing the observed site-specific amino acid frequencies from an alignment.