hemiplasy

English

Noun

hemiplasy (uncountable)

  1. (genetics) A condition similar to homoplasy that is the topological discordance between a gene tree and a species tree attributable to lineage sorting of genetic polymorphisms that were retained across successive nodes in a species tree
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