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Phylogenetic trees based on one or more parameter/s
allow comparison of topological relationships among a set of species. However, there is no method available to validate the extent of fidelity of a phylogenetic tree against a benchmark taxonomic tree for the same set of species. We have developed a computational method to estimate the fidelity of distributional relationships of all taxa in a phylogenetic tree against that based on standard taxonomic lassification. We show that the extent of fidelity of a phylogenetic tree for a fixed set of species indeed differs for different parameters and reflects the extent
of conservation of the parameters examined.
