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SUBMITTER: Bryant D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3408069 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bryant David D Bouckaert Remco R Felsenstein Joseph J Rosenberg Noah A NA RoyChoudhury Arindam A
Molecular biology and evolution 20120314 8
The multispecies coalescent provides an elegant theoretical framework for estimating species trees and species demographics from genetic markers. However, practical applications of the multispecies coalescent model are limited by the need to integrate or sample over all gene trees possible for each genetic marker. Here we describe a polynomial-time algorithm that computes the likelihood of a species tree directly from the markers under a finite-sites model of mutation effectively integrating ove ...[more]