Inferring gene duplications, transfers and losses can be done in a discrete framework
Abstract
In the field of phylogenetics, the evolutionary history of a set of organisms is commonly depicted by a species tree-whose internal nodes represent speciation events-while the evolutionary history of a gene family is depicted by a gene tree-whose internal nodes can also represent macro-evolutionary events such as gene duplications and transfers. As speciation events are only part of the events shaping a gene history, the topology of a gene tree can show incongruences with that of the corresponding species tree. These incongruences can be used to infer the macro-evolutionary events undergone by the gene family. This is done by embedding the gene tree inside the species tree and hence providing a reconciliation of those trees. In the past decade, several parsimony-based methods have been developed to infer such reconciliations, accounting for gene duplications ([Formula: see text]), transfers ([Formula: see text]) and losses ([Formula: see text]). The main contribution of this paper is to formally prove an important assumption implicitly made by previous works on these reconciliations, namely that solving the (maximum) parsimony [Formula: see text] reconciliation problem in the discrete framework is equivalent to finding a most p...Continue Reading
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