Escape from parsimony of a double-cut-and-join genome evolution process
Probability
2021-09-29 v1
Abstract
We analyze models of genome evolution based on both restricted and unrestricted double-cut-and-join (DCJ) operations. We compare the number of operations along the evolutionary trajectory to the DCJ distance of the genome from its ancestor at each step, and determine at what point they diverge: the process escapes from parsimony. Adapting the method developed by Berestycki and Durret (2006), we estimate the number of cycles in the breakpoint graph of a random genome at time and its ancestral genome by the number of tree components of an Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graph constructed from the model of evolution. In both models, the process on a genome of size is bound to its parsimonious estimate up to steps.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2109.13424,
title = {Escape from parsimony of a double-cut-and-join genome evolution process},
author = {Mona Meghdari Miardan and Arash Jamshidpey and David Sankoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.13424},
year = {2021}
}