Signal, noise, and bias in phylogenetic inference:potential and limits to the resolution of phylogenetic trees in the phylogenomic era
Alex Dornburg, Zhou Tony Su, Yide Jin, Jeffrey Nicholas Fisk, Jeffrey P. Townsend
The paper analyzes how phylogenetic signal, noise, and bias affect tree resolution in phylogenomics and shows their divergent scaling properties with character sampling.
bioRxiv · Apr 1, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology