Ted said: > > You can certainly keep populations of a species separate for analyses. > If > > you know the splitting order, then you are set; if not, then you can use > a > > polytomy. Similarly, if you were studying various inbred strains of mice > > then you would keep them separate and use an appropriate phylogenetic > tree. > I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "keeping them separate and using an appropriate phylogenetic tree", but I will first read the articles that you indicated (except, for now, the Lajeneuse article, for which I have no institutional access). If I get it, though, the (yes, inbred) strains of mice and rats should be kept in their own branch of a phylogeny, and considered as a polytomy? -- Caio Maximino Laboratório de Neurociências e Comportamento - UFPA
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