Gene tree vs species tree

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Phylogenetics And Systematics subtree

Individual gene phylogenies can differ from organism-level tree due to incomplete lineage sorting, HGT, hybridisation. Coalescent methods (ASTRAL) reconcile gene trees.

Related concepts

Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT)

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