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What is a cladogram?

What is a cladogram? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (taxonomy) A branching treelike graphical representation of the phylogenetic relationships between organisms showing which taxa have branched from common ancestors.
  2. (phylogenetics) A phylogenetic tree that is strictly the outcome of a cladistic analysis.
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To represent this, we have used multiple lines drawn to paraphyletic groups in the cladogram above.
The unrooted cladogram to the right shows the relationship between various subgenera and classes as defined by the analysis of Rivadavia et al.
The family tree, or cladogram, below shows the branches of primates, the order of mammals that includes humans, monkeys, apes, and lemurs.
The cladogram that resulted from our analysis of the European isolates is in agreement with those previously published.
The cladogram presented below is based on studies compiled by Philippe Janvier and others for the Tree of Life Web Project.
This large amount of overlap drives the inference of isolation-by-distance for the overall cladogram.

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