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I am using MEGA to build a phylogenetic tree using two genes. They were already aligned separatelly using MUSCLE, but now I don't know how to continue...
06 June 2016 6,472 7 View
I finally got a decent-looking tree using back-translated protein sequences to align the nucleotides of bacterial genome regions that span (12-20)kb. I used NJ algorithm and Jukes-Cantor...
06 June 2016 1,529 3 View
I have constructed phylogenetic trees of mites using 16s rRNA and 18s rRna. I've got 4 sequences for one gene, out of which one is showing similarity with the outgroup . What can be the possible...
06 June 2016 3,460 3 View
Hello, Does anybody know what phylogenetic reconstruction method is best suited to build a tree with palindromic sequences from several lines of the same Drosophila species? I'm trying to sequence...
06 June 2016 4,866 2 View
Thinking in phylogenetic inference, I have two questions: 1) How I can proceed when I have two different rates of nucleotide substitution in my data? and 2) How to know if two mitochondrial...
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I have reconstructed the phylogenetic relationship of a kind of mammal using different mtDNA and generated different results. Specially, four consistent clades were resolved by different mtDNA,...
06 June 2016 1,943 7 View
How do I translate phylogenetic tree-Neighbor joining to explain the related species to my identified isolate. Because my sequencing results indicated 99% relation with my isolate and other...
20 May 2016 1,761 3 View
Is there any kind of software/program can test bi-branch or multi-branch phylogensis of the speciation?
15 May 2016 5,205 3 View
I did the ancestral states reconstruction in Mesquite v. 3.04, and the character has 3 states. I use 0&1 or 0&2 to indicate this species has polymorphic states, then I analyzed my data...
05 May 2016 7,393 6 View
I am working to characterize very specific region between two bacterial species that spans from 13kb to 20kb in size, and each contains from 8 to 13 genes. I plan to use the protein sequences to...
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Is there any software (desktop or online) that allows you to create customizable visualizations of the most current phylogenetic relationships between taxons? Let's say that I would like to have...
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I want to start this thread to discuss some possible ways to simultaneously quantify multiple (20+) microorganisms (phylogenetically unrelated). qPCR or ddPCR basically can only target one or a...
15 April 2016 5,157 3 View
I want to look for galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose in ticks and for the presence of mammalian blood at the same time. I only found primers for vertebrates or species specific ones. But i only need...
04 April 2016 1,309 5 View
I am doing a study on phylogeography. An average pairwise difference and Nei's distance matrix was generated in Arlequin. I am having a hard time interpreting the results. As far as I know, higher...
04 April 2016 6,646 2 View
Plant mitochondrial pseudogenes tend to accumulate neutral mutations useful for phylogenetic/genetic diversity studies. However, they could be duplicated in nuclear genome in some species. With...
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According to Mayfield and Levine (2010), when two competing species differ primarily in their niches, competition causes trait overdispersion (divergence), but when they differ primarily in their...
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Dear, I have a community data matrix (presence and absence) and a phylogenetic tree created by ape package in R. But when I try calculate correlation between co-occurrence of species and its...
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Maximum-likelihood (ML) tree based on GTR, why we choose this GTR mode to construct a phylogenetic tree? Could anybody explain it with ref/article if there is any? I may find answer in Nei and...
04 April 2016 8,323 10 View
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I want to concatenate multiple protein coding gene (PCGs) sequences of an organism and calculate base composition at each codon position of concatenated PCGs in MEGA 6.0. Which software/ tool can...
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