This is the blog for GW students taking Human Evolutionary Genetics. This site is for posting interesting tidbits on: the patterns and processes of human genetic variation;human origins and migration; molecular adaptations to environment, lifestyle and disease; ancient and forensic DNA analyses; and genealogical reconstructions.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Seeing the complicated SYMPHY forests through the trees

A review article in TREE proposes an interesting new framework for phylogenetics using symbiomes instead of individual species. This would basically create trees connected to other distant trees (e.g. fungi interacting with plants). Conceptualizing the multidimensional layers makes my head hurt. Because everything needs a snappy acronym, they're calling it SYMPHY (symbiome phylogenetic).

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