Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Dollo parsimony overestimates ancestral gene content reconstructions
Alex Gàlvez-Morante, Laurent Guéguen, Paschalis Natsidis…·Daniel J Richter
This study compares Dollo parsimony and maximum likelihood methods for ancestral gene content reconstruction, finding Dollo parsimony overestimates ancestral gene content, especially near the root of the tree.
DOI 10.1093/gbe/evae062