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Maley and Marshall 1998: This problem of homoplasious similarity swamping out the true phylogenetic signal is particularly acute when the true evolutionary tree has long branches (many changes) in proximity to very short branches (few changes), even if there is no rate variation among the lineages; the long branches will artificially group together, or attract each other, a problem exacerbated when the rate of evolution varies along the gene.
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Agabus bipustulatus specimen from BipRus1 in order to visualise the deep split within the complex (group I and II), and to display unambiguous unique character state transformations, marked with (•), and homoplasious character state transformations with (○).
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