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Multiple outgroups can cause random rooting in phylogenomics
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DOI：10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107806.png)
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Outgroup selection has been a major challenge since the rise of phylogenetics, and it has remained so in the phylogenomic era. Our goal here is to use large phylogenomic animal datasets to examine the impact of outgroup selection on the final topology. The results of our analyses further solidify the fact that distant outgroups can cause random rooting, and that this holds for concatenated and coalescent-based methods. The results also indicate that the standard practice of using multiple outgroups often causes random rooting. Most researchers go out of their way to get multiple outgroups, as this has been standard practice for decades. Based on our findings, this practice should stop. Instead, our results suggest that a single (most closely) related relative should be selected as the outgroup, unless all outgroups are roughly equally closely related to the ingroup.
Keywords:
Phylogenomics
Outgroup choice
Raw distance
Phylogenetic accuracy
Animals
Phylogenetic analysis
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