You Are Studying the Relationships Among a Group of Ten

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Essay

You are studying the relationships among a group of ten cichlid fishes that have speciated very recently (say, the last 5000 years). Would you choose to use intron or exon sequences in your phylogenetic analysis? Explain your answer.

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