Incomplete Lineage Sorting: Consistent Phylogeny Estimation From Multiple Loci
Populations and Evolution
2011-09-30 v2 Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Data Structures and Algorithms
Probability
Statistics Theory
Statistics Theory
Abstract
We introduce a simple algorithm for reconstructing phylogenies from multiple gene trees in the presence of incomplete lineage sorting, that is, when the topology of the gene trees may differ from that of the species tree. We show that our technique is statistically consistent under standard stochastic assumptions, that is, it returns the correct tree given sufficiently many unlinked loci. We also show that it can tolerate moderate estimation errors.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0710.0262,
title = {Incomplete Lineage Sorting: Consistent Phylogeny Estimation From Multiple Loci},
author = {Elchanan Mossel and Sebastien Roch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.0262},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Added a section on more general distance-based methods