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Main topics: ARB: a Short Introduction Glossary Add Marked Species Add Marked Species and Local Optimization | Related topics: Partial sequences
# Add marked partial species OCCURRENCE DESCRIPTION NOTES EXAMPLES WARNINGS BUGS ## OCCURRENCE
### ARB_PARRSIMONY/Tree/Add species to tree
## DESCRIPTION
### Use this to add partial sequences into an existing tree.
## NOTES
### The branchlengths of the added partial sequences represent the number of mutations against the full sequence. ### Adding species using this function marks them as "partial sequence" if they have no 'ARB_partial' entry yet. Otherwise insertion is aborted. ### All species already in tree are marked as "full sequence" if they have no 'ARB_partial' entry yet.
## EXAMPLES
### None
## WARNINGS
### Calculating branch length after adding partial sequences will lead to wrong lengths.
## BUGS
### No bugs known