Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Nucleotide Usage Biases Distort Inferences of the Species Tree
R. Borges, B. Boussau, G. Szollosi, C. Kosiol
This study shows that nucleotide usage biases, like GC-bias, systematically underestimate genetic distances in species trees, affecting molecular dating of fruit fly populations.
DOI 10.1101/2020.07.30.228965