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One rapidly runs out of hands and must resort to fingers and toes, for after years of laboriously categorizing these languages, the number of different main branches (called families and subfamilies) came to about ten.
Other nuclear genes also show this pattern, but to a lesser degree [ 8 9 ] . Phylogenetic methods can accommodate moderate amounts of rate variation among lineages without producing an incorrect phylogeny [ 19 ] . However, if the rate of change is sufficiently large, longer branches in a phylogeny will sometimes attract one another [ 20 ] . If that happens, an ingroup species with a long branch may move to a more basal position in the tree.
The organisms that have hung on to isogamy are found among the less complex branches of life, such as fungi, algae, and protozoa.
For example, the arsC sequences from major divisions of Bacteria such as the Green Sulfur Bacteria (represented by Chlorobium tepidum ) and the Deinococcales (represented by D. radiodurans ) are loosely associated with either the Enterobacteriales/α-Proteobacteria (Figure 2) or Low GC Gram-positive Bacteria (Figure 3) depending upon the analysis used, but in either case diverge to form their own deep branches, suggesting that they possess distinct arsenate reductases.
Our work largely corroborates the validity of this classical naming scheme, but adds several names for branches representing sequences that do not fit into any of the previously described subfamilies, or that fall into one of the catch-all subfamilies (such as OPK_Other) whose members do not form a well defined sequence cluster in the phenogram.
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