dog as an outgroup to human and mouse狗作为人类和小鼠的外围集团.pdfVIP

Correspondence Dog as an Outgroup to Human would suffice to bring about a topology change. As the mouse genome sequence has been evolving fast relative to those of and Mouse human and dog [11], its branch is expected to be affected by Gerton Lunter LBA to the opossum branch, which would result in the reported grouping. In a recent contribution to PLoS Computational Biology, These considerations throw some doubt on both the Cannarozzi, Schneider, and Gonnet published evidence that parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses. What about the rodents form an outgroup to human and dog [1], in genome rearrangement argument? After all, genome disagreement with several recent studies suggesting that the rearrangements are large-scale but relatively infrequent dog is an outgroup to the primate–rodent clade [2,3]. The events, so that the parsimony approximation might be authors’ arguments rest on a variety of analyses of human, justified. However, the opossum genome had not yet been mouse, and dog genes, using opossum to root the phylogeny. assembled, and the authors had to resort to chicken, which Here I argue that despite the large number of characters used