Sponges, ctenophores, and the statistical significance of syntenies.

Mol Biol Evol · 2025 · PMC12728501 · PMID 41355550

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Whether or not they are nominally significant, there is no way of experimentally testing whether syntenies supported by small numbers of genes are syntenic by descent or convergence.

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