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Technological Perspectives in Phylogeny Research: Revisiting Comparative Analysis of Complete Mitochondrial Genomes for Time-Extended Lineages
Department of Research & Development, Pangaea Biosciences, Miami, USA
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Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology·Volume 05 (2014)·Pages 470–477·Published 31 March 2014·DOI10.4236/abb.2014.55057
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Abstract
This article seeks to emphasize a simplified approach to phylogeny research using complete mitochondrial genomes alone, while touching upon a number of technological perspectives, such as algorithmic selection, which can help improve accuracy and performance in comparative analysis. My results will show that reliable estimations can be obtained by using mitochondrial markers, even among time-extended taxonomical rankings. Six distinct mammalian groups of taxa were selected for comparison. In all cases, mtDNA models generated reliable phylogeny approximations when compared against other independent data, while rendering exceptional computational performance.
KeywordsPhylogenyMammalian PhylogenyComparative Sequence analysismtDNAMultiple Sequence AlignmentBioinformatics
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