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Sequences most likely to be misrepresented in the ancestor by this reconstruction are phage genes or insertion elements, which may move in and out of genomes too frequently for ancestral states to be reconstructed using parsimony.
When they do so, they will find that parable of the widow's cruse--a marvelous tidbit on the rewards of vigorous consumption spending as opposed to parsimony, niggardliness, and thrift.
The Protpars program was used to generate a maximum parsimony tree, and the neighbor-joining and Fitch programs were used to generate a distance-based tree.
Unbootstrapped maximum parsimony tree.
E. coli has 86 tRNAs, and most of these appear to be present in the ancestor (the parsimony criterion for presence of a tRNA in the ancestor, based on distribution in sequenced genomes, is somewhat unreliable because of sequence homology among different tRNA genes).