Chapter 8 Identification of Conserved Indels that are Useful for Classification and Evolutionary Studies

Phylogenetic treeing approaches for the classification of organisms have a number of important limitations. The most significant of these drawbacks is that different groups/taxa are distinguished from each other primarily on the basis of their branching in the trees and, in most cases, no unique property of any kind (viz. biochemical, molecular, structural or physiological) is known that is specifically shared by members of different taxa. …