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From: Heterotachy and long-branch attraction in phylogenetics

Figure 2

Schematic presentation of the protocol used to simulate heterotachous alignments. Sequences were generated similarly as in ref. [33] under two different sets of branch lengths of equal weight (w = 0.5). In ref. [33], the branch lengths were altered by swapping the values of p and q (a). In our case (b), a single parameter (τ) allows to adjust the level of heterotachy from fully homotachous (τ = 0) to extreme heterotachous (τ = 1) conditions, while keeping the averaged branch length constant. Our branch lengths are (1 + τ) p and (1 - τ) q for the first partition and (1 - τ) p and (1 + τ) q for the second partition. 100 replicates of 5,000 nucleotide positions were simulated for each partition assuming a uniform JC69 model [18] using SeqGen [51] and were concatenated before phylogenetic inference using PAUP* [52].

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