Quintet Rooting: rooting species trees under the multi-species coalescent model.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Rooted species trees are a basic model with multiple applications throughout biology, including understanding adaptation, biodiversity, phylogeography and co-evolution. Because most species tree estimation methods produce unrooted trees, methods for rooting these trees have been developed. However, most rooting methods either rely on prior biological knowledge or assume that evolution is close to clock-like, which is not usually the case. Furthermore, most prior rooting methods do not account for biological processes that create discordance between gene trees and species trees.

Results

We present Quintet Rooting (QR), a method for rooting species trees based on a proof of identifiability of the rooted species tree under the multi-species coalescent model establish

SUBMITTER: Tabatabaee Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9236578 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature