In the light of deep coalescence: revisiting trees within networks

dc.citation.journalTitleBMC Bioinformaticsen_US
dc.contributor.authorZhu, Jiafanen_US
dc.contributor.authorYu, Yunen_US
dc.contributor.authorNakhleh, Luay K.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-11T17:03:12Zen_US
dc.date.available2016-11-11T17:03:12Zen_US
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.date.updated2016-11-11T17:03:11Zen_US
dc.description.abstractAbstract Background Phylogenetic networks model reticulate evolutionary histories. The last two decades have seen an increased interest in establishing mathematical results and developing computational methods for inferring and analyzing these networks. A salient concept underlying a great majority of these developments has been the notion that a network displays a set of trees and those trees can be used to infer, analyze, and study the network. Results In this paper, we show that in the presence of coalescence effects, the set of displayed trees is not sufficient to capture the network. We formally define the set of parental trees of a network and make three contributions based on this definition. First, we extend the notion of anomaly zone to phylogenetic networks and report on anomaly results for different networks. Second, we demonstrate how coalescence events could negatively affect the ability to infer a species tree that could be augmented into the correct network. Third, we demonstrate how a phylogenetic network can be viewed as a mixture model that lends itself to a novel inference approach via gene tree clustering. Conclusions Our results demonstrate the limitations of focusing on the set of trees displayed by a network when analyzing and inferring the network. Our findings can form the basis for achieving higher accuracy when inferring phylogenetic networks and open up new venues for research in this area, including new problem formulations based on the notion of a network’s parental trees.en_US
dc.identifier.citationZhu, Jiafan, Yu, Yun and Nakhleh, Luay K.. "In the light of deep coalescence: revisiting trees within networks." <i>BMC Bioinformatics,</i> (2016) BioMed Central: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-016-1269-1.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-016-1269-1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/92706en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_US
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dc.titleIn the light of deep coalescence: revisiting trees within networksen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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