correspondence between parts as a result of similarity of environment rather than common heredity
see also homogeny
Word origin
homo- + -plasy
homoplasy in American English
(həˈmɑpləsi, ˈhouməˌplæsi, -ˌpleisi, ˈhɑmə-)
noun
Biology
correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment
Derived forms
homoplastic (ˌhouməˈplæstɪk, ˌhɑmə-)
adjective
Word origin
[1865–70; homo- + -plasy]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dunk, goulash, maverick, racism, springboardhomo- is a combining form appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “same” (homology). On this model, homo- is used in the formation of compound words (homomorphic). Other words that use the affix homo- include: homodyne, homogamous, homogentisic acid, homologous, homozygote
Examples of 'homoplasy' in a sentence
homoplasy
Tree robustness, homoplasy, accuracy in contrast to a reference tree, and phylogenetic informativeness are evaluated.
Khidir W Hilu, Chelsea M Black, Dipan Oza 2014, 'Impact of gene molecular evolution on phylogenetic reconstruction: a case study inthe rosids (Superorder Rosanae, Angiosperms).', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4059714?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This region has the highest density of sites with homoplasy values >0.5.
Michael A Purdy, James Lara, Yury E Khudyakov 2012, 'The hepatitis E virus polyproline region is involved in viral adaptation.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3335810?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Furthermore, evolution of the chrysochlorid malleus exhibits homoplasy.
Bloomer Paulette, Bennett Nigel C, Bronner Gary, Maree Sarita, Asher Robert J, CzechowskiPaul, Meyer Matthias, Hofreiter Michael 2010, 'A phylogenetic estimate for golden moles (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Chrysochloridae)',BMC Evolutionary Biologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/69. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, these phenotypic traits are prone to homoplasy.
Samuel Abalde, Manuel J. Tenorio, Carlos M. L. Afonso, Juan E. Uribe, Ana M. Echeverry,Rafael Zardoya 2017, 'Phylogenetic relationships of cone snails endemic to Cabo Verde based on mitochondrialgenomes', BMC Evolutionary Biologyhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-1069-x. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Our results show that homoplasy rate sharply increases with the number of peaks per profile.
Poncet Bénédicte N, Ficetola Gentile, Bonnes Benjamin, Paris Margot, Després Laurence 2010, 'Amplified fragment length homoplasy: in silico analysis for model and non-modelspecies', BMC Genomicshttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/287. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Using a single, global tree can create the appearance of homoplasy in recombined regions.
Yi-Pin Lai, Thomas R. Ioerger 2018, 'A statistical method to identify recombination in bacterial genomes based on SNP incompatibility',BMC Bioinformaticshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2456-z. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These approaches yielded largely congruent results but varied in amounts of resolution and homoplasy.
Jansen Robert K, Raubeson Linda A, Cosner Mary E 2004, 'Chloroplast DNA rearrangements in Campanulaceae: phylogenetic utility of highly rearrangedgenomes', BMC Evolutionary Biologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/4/27. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Filtering to remove short indels did not substantially reduce homoplasy or reduce conflict.
Frederick H. Sheldon, David W. Steadman, Sushma Reddy, William S. Moore, ChristopherJ. Huddleston, Shannon J. Hackett, Kin-Lan Han, Jena L. Chojnowski, Michael J. Braun,Rauri C. K. Bowie, John Harshman, Rebecca T. Kimball, Tamaki Yuri, Christopher C.Witt, Edward L. Braun 2013, 'Parsimony and Model-Based Analyses of Indels in Avian Nuclear Genes Reveal Congruentand Incongruent Phylogenetic Signals', Biologyhttp://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/2/1/419. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, since these methods are subject to a certain degree of homoplasy, other criteria have been chosen to assign lineages.
María Carcelén, Estefanía Abascal, Marta Herranz, Sheila Santantón, Roberto Zenteno,María Jesús Ruiz Serrano, Emilio Bouza, Laura Pérez-Lago, Darío García-de-Viedma 2017, 'Optimizing and accelerating the assignation of lineages in Mycobacterium tuberculosisusing novel alternative single-tube assays', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0186956. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)