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SUBMITTER: Hancock ZB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10289471 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hancock Zachary B ZB Lehmberg Emma S ES Blackmon Heath H
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 20220514
The tendency to discretize biology permeates taxonomy and systematics, leading to models that simplify the often continuous nature of populations. Even when the assumption of panmixia is relaxed, most models still assume some degree of discrete structure. The multispecies coalescent has emerged as a powerful model in phylogenetics, but in its common implementation is entirely space-independent - what we call the "missing z-axis". In this article, we review the many lines of evidence for how cont ...[more]