PHYLOGENY CORRELATES. “These observations are confirmed by standard parsimony statistics and their comparison with randomized-tip null models; presence/absence of stripes, despite these being visually striking patterns used in identification, appear to lack significant phylogenetic signal in that they do not show significantly more congruence with the phylogeny than is expected under the null model in which character states have been randomly shuffled among the phylogeny tips.”
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