{
  "id": 19500518,
  "title": "TaxaAudit: A statistical model of consensus in phylogenetics identifies non-monophyletic taxa",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/taxaaudit-a-statistical-model-of-consensus-in-phylogenetics",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.09.765192v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Interpreting variation in genes and traits across species requires understanding their evolutionary relationships. Taxonomic hierarchies provide a practical approximation of the tree of life, with the NCBI taxonomy linking this framework directly to public sequence data. Some named groups, however, are not evolutionary clades, and recognizing these exceptions requires knowledge scattered across…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}