Inferring metric trees from weighted quartets via an intertaxon distance

DOI10.1007/S11538-020-00773-4zbMATH Open1448.92156arXiv2002.04564OpenAlexW3043220456WikidataQ97533088 ScholiaQ97533088MaRDI QIDQ786063FDOQ786063

Authors: Samaneh Yourdkhani, John A. Rhodes 

Publication date: 12 August 2020

Published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A metric phylogenetic tree relating a collection of taxa induces weighted rooted triples and weighted quartets for all subsets of three and four taxa, respectively. New intertaxon distances are defined that can be calculated from these weights, and shown to exactly fit the same tree topology, but with edge weights rescaled by certain factors dependent on the associated split size. These distances are analogs for metric trees of similar ones recently introduced for topological trees that are based on induced unweighted rooted triples and quartets. The distances introduced here lead to new statistically consistent methods of inferring a metric species tree from a collection of topological gene trees generated under the multispecies coalescent model of incomplete lineage sorting. Simulations provide insight into their potential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04564

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zbMATH Keywords

phylogenetic treedistancemultispecies coalescentquartetconsensus tree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Taxonomy, cladistics, statistics in mathematical biology (92B10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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• Identifying the rooted species tree from the distribution of unrooted gene trees under the coalescent
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• A distance-based model for convergent evolution
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Uses Software

• ape
• ASTRAL-II
• ASTRID
• FastMe
• MSCquartets

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