More Taxa Are Not Necessarily Better for the Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States
More Taxa Are Not Necessarily Better for the Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States
Ancestral state reconstruction is an important approach to understanding the origins and evolution of key features of different living organisms (Liberles, 2007). For example, ancestral proteins and genomic sequences have been reconstructed for investigating the origins of genes and proteins (Hillis et al., 1994; Jermann et al., 1995; Zhang and …