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Potential limitations of using mtDNA to infer species boundaries include retention of ancestral polymorphism, male-biased gene flow, selection on any mtDNA nucleotide (as the whole genome is one linkage group), introgression following hybridization, and paralogy resulting from transfer of mtDNA gene copies to the nucleus.
This is consistent with a single ancestral fusion event, but requires the assumption of multiple LGT events.
It agrees with the ancestral tongue in sopracciglio for eyebrow (compare Fr sourcil ) and in palebra for eyelid (Fr paupière ).
The Dollo model is based on the assumption that each derived character state (in this case, the presence of a gene pair) originates only once, and homoplasies exist only in the form of reversals to the ancestral condition (absence of a gene pair) [ 38 ] . In other words, parallel or convergent gains of the derived condition are assumed to be highly unlikely.
But the links may also be genetic or, at the very least, the result of ancient ancestral contact.