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In phylogenomic analyses, concatenated trees have similar topological structures with concordance tree on the class level.
Topology 3 (T3) corresponds to the concatenated trees by the NJ method.
We found similar results, with the *BEAST and concatenated trees having similar topologies, but with node support varying widely.
Then, they reconstructed five test topologies: the consensus tree, the ML and NJ supertrees, and the ML and NJ concatenated trees for these alignments.
The resulting tree was visualized using TreeView [ 135], and in both consensus and concatenated trees T. maritima was used as an out-group.
This might give a plausible explanation why the topologies of the rRNA gene trees are so different from those of the concatenated trees, as pointed out previously [ 8, 55].
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Opponents of concatenation have pointed out that the concatenated tree could be spurious, unreflective of underlying diversity, and supported by inflated bootstrap values (Degnan and Rosenberg 2006).
However, Doolittle and Zhaxybayeva (2007) refuted this claim arguing that faulty Blast settings, the disregard of seven discordant gene trees (potential LGT-driven events) in a 14-gene concatenated phylogeny, and biased comparisons of the concatenated tree with the "species" tree (reconstructed mostly from ribosomal proteins) underestimated the role of LGT.
Interestingly, the concatenated tree topology is identical to the topology obtained previously from over 100 concatenated nuclear proteins with identical number of introns among orthologs [ 20].
The topology of the concordance tree was similar to that of the concatenated tree.
The similarity between the concatenated tree and concordance trees indicates that a robust phylogenetic topological structure could be predicted based on hundreds of molecular loci, even though these had markedly divergent rates of molecular evolution.
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