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Summary: TRENDS in Genetics Vol.17 No.5 May 2001
http://tig.trends.com 01689525/01/$ see front matter © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. PII: S0168-9525(01)02272-7
262 Review
S. Whelan
P. Liò
N. Goldman*
University Museum of
Zoology, Dept of Zoology,
University of Cambridge,
Downing Street,
Cambridge, UK CB2 3EJ.
*e-mail: N.Goldman@
zoo.cam.ac.uk
Only through MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC (see Glossary)
studies can we understand fully the rapidly
accumulating genomic sequence data and
information regarding proteins'structure and
function. Phylogenetic analyses used to be restricted
to descriptive and speculative studies of evolutionary
relationships, but recent advances in methodology
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