Polytomy
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Cladograms B and C contain polytomies, where more than one branch descends from a single node.
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Soft polytomies vs. hard polytomies
- Applications
- Species polytomies
- Molecular polytomies
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|300px|Cladograms B and C contain polytomies, where more than one branch descends from a single node.
An internal node of a phylogenetic tree is described as a polytomy or multifurcation if (i) it is in a rooted tree and is linked to three or more child subtrees or (ii) it is in an unrooted tree and is attached to four or more branches.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polytomy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.