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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.