What is Phylogeny?
Phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary relationships between different taxa. In phylogenetics, phylogeny is the evolution of a species [1]. Phylogenetic trees can be built to understand your protein of interest evolution [2]. One program you can use to build a phylogenetic tree is MEGA 11. Once your tree is built, you can look at the ancestral lineages that are associated with your protein of interest.
Discussion: Tree Used
References
[1]Embl-Ebi. (n.d.). What is phylogenetics?. What is phylogenetics? | Phylogenetics. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online/courses/introduction-to-phylogenetics/what-is-phylogenetics/ [2] Baerkely. (n.d.). Home. Understanding Evolution. https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolution-101/the-history-of-life-looking-at-the-patterns/understanding-phylogenies/#:~:text=Understanding%20a%20phylogeny%20is%20a,are%20moving%20forward%20in%20time.
[3] Edgar, R. C. (2004, March 19). Muscle: Multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput. Nucleic acids research. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC390337/
[3] Edgar, R. C. (2004, March 19). Muscle: Multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput. Nucleic acids research. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC390337/
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