Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

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Hervé Philippe ,

* E-mail: herve.philippe@umontreal.ca

Affiliation Département de Biochimie, Centre Robert-Cedergren, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Henner Brinkmann,

Affiliation Département de Biochimie, Centre Robert-Cedergren, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Dennis V. Lavrov,

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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D. Timothy J. Littlewood,

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
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Michael Manuel,

Affiliation Université Paris 6, UMR 7138 "Systématique, Adaptation, Evolution" UPMC CNRS IRD MHNH, Paris, France
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Gert Wörheide,

Affiliations Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany, GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
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Denis Baurain

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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