Figure 3
Effect of tandem duplication on imbalance. If arrays of tandem duplications duplicate at increasing rates, this could produce highly unbalanced trees. Results of a simulation of a branching process where the probability of a particular branch splitting is proportional to the number of splitting events leading to that branch, based on 500 trees each of sizes from 4 to 50 leaves, showing mean Im and 2 standard errors around the mean.