Core set approach to reduce uncertainty of gene trees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A genealogy based on gene sequences within a species plays an essential role in the estimation of the character, structure, and evolutionary history of that species. Because intraspecific sequences are more closely related than interspecific ones, detailed information on the evolutionary process may be available by determining all the node sequences of trees and provide insight into functional constraints and adaptations. However, strong evolutionary correlations on a few lineages make this determination difficult as a whole, and the maximum parsimony (MP) method frequently allows a number of topologies with a same total branching length.

Results

Kitazoe et al. developed multidimensional vector-space representation of phylogeny. It converts additivity of evolution

SUBMITTER: Okabayashi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1508163 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature