Horizontal transfers can reveal ghost birth events and complete species trees
Extinct and unsampled species vastly outnumber the species typically included in phylogenetic studies. Most of these so-called ``ghost lineages'' are unknown and, among them, those that are extinct may have left no trace in the fossil record. Horizontal gene transfers (HGTs), however, provide a potential source of information about these missing lineages, because transfers can connect sampled…
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