Integrating Phylogenies with Chronology to Assemble the Tree of Life.

ABSTRACT: Reconstructing the global Tree of Life necessitates computational approaches to integrate numerous molecular phylogenies with limited species overlap into a comprehensive supertree. Our survey of published literature shows that individual phylogenies are frequently restricted to specific taxonomic groups due to the expertise of investigators and molecular evolutionary considerations, resulting in any given species present in a minuscule fraction of phylogenies. We present a novel approach, called the chronological supertree algorithm (Chrono-STA), that can build a supertree of species from such data by using node ages in published molecular phylogenies scaled to time. Chrono-STA builds a supertree of organisms by integrating chronological data from molecular timetrees. It fundamentally dif

SUBMITTER: Barba-Montoya J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11291004 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature