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Homoplasy

Homoplasy is a biological phenomenon in phylogenetics wherein similar traits or characteristics evolve independently in different lineages, not due to shared ancestry but as a result of convergent evolution, parallelism, or evolutionary reversal.

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860

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2017–2026

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267

A Successive Approximations Approach to Character Weighting

James S. Farris · Systematic Zoology · 1969 · 1.3K citations

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ESTIMATING CHARACTER WEIGHTS DURING TREE SEARCH

Pablo A. Goloboff · Cladistics · 1993 · 1.3K citations

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Data from amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers show indication of size homoplasy and of a relationship between degree of homoplasy and fragment size

Xavier Vekemans, T. Beauwens, M Lemaire et al. · Molecular Ecology · 2002 · 801 citations

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Free recombination within <i>Helicobacter pylori</i>

Sebastian Suerbaum, John Maynard Smith, Khairun Bapumia et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1998 · 594 citations

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Combining Data Sets with Different Phylogenetic Histories

John J. Wiens · Systematic Biology · 1998 · 568 citations

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Authors

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  1. SS
    Sebastian Suerbaum

    Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany

    6 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. PA
    Pablo A. Goloboff

    Fundación Miguel Lillo, Argentina

    5 publications · 2.2K citations

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  3. JS
    Jürgen Schmitz

    University of Münster, Germany

    4 publications · 482 citations

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  4. DB
    David B. Wake

    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, United States

    4 publications · 571 citations

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  5. MJ
    Michael J. Sanderson

    University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, United States

    4 publications · 1.2K citations

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Institutions

434

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    12 h-index

    39 publications

    3.4K citations

  2. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    2.9K citations

  3. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    9 h-index

    15 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    2.5K citations

  5. American Museum of Natural History

    New York, United States

    9 h-index

    22 publications

    3.2K citations

  6. Natural History Museum

    London, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    702 citations

  7. Field Museum of Natural History

    Chicago, United States

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

    Berkeley, United States

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    2.1K citations

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  1. Systematic Biology

    20 publications · 2.6K citations

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  2. Cladistics

    18 publications · 2.9K citations

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  3. Molecular Biology and Evolution

    MBE · 14 publications · 1.6K citations

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  4. American Journal of Botany

    8 publications · 929 citations

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  5. Evolution

    8 publications · 1.2K citations

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