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These changes in flowering time are similar to what was observed for the maize bm mutants [ 12 ] . If the correlation between flowering dynamics and cell wall biosynthesis were spurious, mutations affecting cell wall composition in evolutionarily related species with different flower morphology would not show association with flowering dynamics.
Errors in trees will produce spurious inferred duplications.
It is helpful to examine the correlation matrix once a set of QTLs has been provisionally mapped to see how summed effects of single or multiple QTLs might produce spurious QTLs in regions not actually associated with trait variance.
The anecdotal evidence for this spurious conclusion?
Some genuine artists earlier in the century did inspired things with the found object and unleashed extraordinary images, but the spurious alchemy of lifting things unmediated from the common culture and plonking them down in the art gallery is truly exhausted now that it has become the academic norm.