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Kankan Zhao

University of California San DiegoORCID 0000-0003-3066-9402Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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EcologybioRxivPreprintAug 5, 2026

Lineage sorting inflates cross-environment functional enrichment

Kankan Zhao, Yiling Wang, Ran Xue

The paper shows that lineage sorting can inflate functional enrichment signals in cross-environment comparisons, demonstrating that corrections are necessary to distinguish true adaptation from lineage bias.

DOI 10.64898/2026.08.04.742871

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