Example sentences for: long-branch

How can you use “long-branch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Phenomena such as unequal mutation rates and lateral gene transfer, or artifacts such as long-branch attraction may produce biased results [ 1].

  • Thus, the suggestion that a basal position of nematodes is the result of long-branch attraction [ 3 ] can be rejected.

  • Because the use of a short branch nematode ( Trichinella ) resulted in a tree whereby nematodes clustered with arthropods, the basal position of nematodes in typical 18S analyses has been interpreted as long-branch attraction [ 3 ] .

  • If nematodes cluster basally because of long-branch attraction, then the strongest support for Ecdysozoa should be obtained with the slowest evolving proteins.


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