There are no caterpillars in a wicked forest

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2015.08.007zbMATH Open1342.92136arXiv1508.06672OpenAlexW1926652554WikidataQ46670334 ScholiaQ46670334MaRDI QIDQ736334FDOQ736334

James H. Degnan, John A. Rhodes

Publication date: 3 August 2016

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Species trees represent the historical divergences of populations or species, while gene trees trace the ancestry of individual gene copies sampled within those populations. In cases involving rapid speciation, gene trees with topologies that differ from that of the species tree can be most probable under the standard multispecies coalescent model, making species tree inference more difficult. Such anomalous gene trees are not well understood except for some small cases. In this work, we establish one constraint that applies to trees of any size: gene trees with "caterpillar" topologies cannot be anomalous. The proof of this involves a new combinatorial object, called a population history, which keeps track of the number of coalescent events in each ancestral population.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06672

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zbMATH Keywords

phylogenyspecies treemultispecies coalescentanomalous gene treecoalescent historygene tree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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• Roadblocked monotonic paths and the enumeration of coalescent histories for non-matching caterpillar gene trees and species trees

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