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Basic concepts — Synapomorphy • Phylogenetic tree • Phylogenetic network • Long branch attraction • Clade Inference methods — Maximum parsimony • Maximum likelihood • Neighbor-joining • UPGMA • Bayesian inference • Least squares Current topics — PhyloCode • DNA barcoding -morphy — Symplesiomorphy • Apomorphy • Plesiomorphy • Synapomorphy -phyly — Monophyly/Holophyly • Paraphyly • Polyphyly |
In bioinformatics, neighbor-joining is a bottom-up clustering method used for the construction of phylogenetic trees. Usually used for trees based on DNA or protein sequence data, the algorithm requires knowledge of the distance between each pair of taxa (e.g. species or sequences) in the tree.
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