Weighted Statistical Binning: Enabling Statistically Consistent Genome-Scale Phylogenetic Analyses.

ABSTRACT: Because biological processes can result in different loci having different evolutionary histories, species tree estimation requires multiple loci from across multiple genomes. While many processes can result in discord between gene trees and species trees, incomplete lineage sorting (ILS), modeled by the multi-species coalescent, is considered to be a dominant cause for gene tree heterogeneity. Coalescent-based methods have been developed to estimate species trees, many of which operate by combining estimated gene trees, and so are called "summary methods". Because summary methods are generally fast (and much faster than more complicated coalescent-based methods that co-estimate gene trees and species trees), they have become very popular techniques for estimating species trees from multip

SUBMITTER: Bayzid MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4472720 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature