A laid-back trip through the Hennigian forests (Notes from naturalists)
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Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, PO. Box 117800, Gainesville, FL, USA
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University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, PO. Box 117800, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Taxonomy
- Keywords
- matrix-‐free Cladistics, character polarity, average consensus, maximal relationship, synapomorphy, cladograms, binary and multistate characters
- Copyright
- © 2016 Mavrodiev et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. A laid-back trip through the Hennigian forests (Notes from naturalists) PeerJ Preprints 4:e2487v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2487v2
Abstract
Binary matrix with an a priori defined plesiomorphic character-state may be re-written as a set of branching diagrams (as a “Hennigian forest”). The last might be analyzed by the average consensus method. This procedure eventually avoids the taxon-character matrix from the analysis of the data. Within this framework, the criteria of the best topologies based on the character-state changes are unnecessary. The solely ‘reversal’‐based groups are always appear within the average consensus topologies despite the lack of direct evidence from the primary data.
Author Comment
I made a few minor corrections in the abstract.