Rooting morphologically divergent taxa - slow-evolving sequence data might help
J. R. Flores, A. C. Bippus, A. M. Tomescu, N. E. Bell, J. T. Hyvonen
This study uses sequence data from conservative genes to improve the phylogeny of morphologically divergent mosses, finding that large gametophyte size evolved independently in multiple lineages.
bioRxiv · Mar 15, 2020 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology