Increased taxon sampling greatly reduces phylogenetic error.

By Derrick J. Zwickl, D. Hillis. Systematic Biology, 2002

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Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Paleontology

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Citations in the corpus

• Missing data and the accuracy of Bayesian phylogenetics (2008, background): “We assumed a 3:1 transition: transversion ratio and base frequencies of A=37%, G=12%, C=24%, and T=27% (parameter values based on mammalian sequences as reported by Zwickl & Hillis, 2002 ).”
• Bat Systematics in the Light of Unconstrained Analyses of a Comprehensive Molecular Supermatrix (2018, background): “There is now ample consensus that results of phylogenetic analyses are improved with both denser taxon (Zwickl and Hillis 2002; Havird and Miyamoto 2010; Pick et al. 2010; Vahtera et al. 2013) and comprehensive character sampling (e.g., Meredith et al. 2011; O'Leary et al. 2013).”
• Ortholog identification in the presence of domain architecture rearrangement (2011, background): “First, thorough taxon sampling is known to be important for phylogenetic tree accuracy [68–70].”
• Improving phylogenetic inference of mushrooms with RPB1 and RPB2 nucleotide sequences (Inocybe; Agaricales). (2005, background): “Although nearly 2400 nucleotide sites were sequenced in that study, the addition of loci and an increase in taxon sample size is believed to raise overall conWdence and resolution throughout a phylogenetic estimate (Pollock et al., 2002; Rosenberg and Kumar, 2001; Zwickl and Hillis, 2002).”
• Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily and novel relationships of its component families and subfamilies (2008, neutral): “1993; Sanderson 1996; Graybeal 1998; Hillis 1998; Zwickl & Hillis 2002).”
• Phylogeny of Robinioid Legumes (Fabaceae) Revisited: Coursetia and Gliricidia Recircumscribed, and a Biogeographical Appraisal of the Caribbean Endemics (2009, background): “In addition, exhaustive sampling increases overall phylogenetic accuracy (Zwickl and Hillis 2002).”
• pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree (2010, background): “Importantly, the addition of a taxon x to a phylogenetic data set on taxa S can lead to re-evaluation of the phylogenetic tree on S; this is the essence of the taxon sampling debate [41] and has recently been the subject of mathematical investigation [42].”
• A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes (2013, background): “In addition, limited taxon sampling is potentially a serious issue for phylogenetic accuracy [25-28].”
• Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the cosmopolitan parasitic wasp subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera:Braconidae) (2008, background): “However, its range of substitution rates means that it is complementary to slower-evolving genes and it has been shown to improve the accuracy of phylogenetic estimates in multigene analyses of higher-level taxa, especially in cases where there is vast taxonomic sampling (e.g. Pollock et al. 2002; Z”
• The revised classification of eukaryotes (2012, background): “Analyses with abundant data for each taxon are subject to systematic biases that can lead to high support for incorrect clades (Hedtke et al. 2006; Zwickl and Hillis 2002).”