Allele Phasing Greatly Improves the Phylogenetic Utility of Ultraconserved Elements
T. Andermann, A. M. Fernandes, U. Olsson, M. Topel, B. Pfeil, B. Oxelman, A. Aleixo, B. C. Faircloth, A. Antonelli
This paper develops a pipeline to recover allele sequences from sequence capture data and shows that phased allele sequences improve phylogenetic accuracy compared to contig sequences.
bioRxiv · Apr 12, 2018Evolutionary Biology