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Possible reference links for 'polytomy'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASOyzh27VbY&t=314s
— The hyrax video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytomy
— Not great. It mentions both 'species polytomy' and 'molecular polytomy'.
https://striresearch.si.edu/taxonomy-training/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020/03/Freshwater_Phylogeny_Trees_CM.pdf#page=5
"A true hard polytomy will only exist when a lineage splits into 3+ lineages within one generation. Anything else is a soft polytomy, which is almost always an artifact of low resolution in the data we can collect."
Not nearly as good quality?
https://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~ivo/Leere/BioinfI/treeterm.pdf
— Class handout
https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/23667/evidence-discussions-of-hard-polytomy
https://www.biostars.org/p/4752/
Academic papers:
Labelled histories with multifurcation and simultaneity
, Emily H. Dickey and Noah A. Rosenberg
The MultiFurcating Neighbor‑Joining Algorithm for Reconstructing Polytomic Phylogenetic Trees
,
[2]
Alberto Fernández, Natàlia Segura‑Alabart, Francesc Serratosa
A real rabbit hole
Oh wow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_phylogenetics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computational_phylogenetics