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ArticleJournal of mathematical biology2022

The tree of blobs of a species network: identifiability under the coalescent.

Elizabeth S Allman, Hector Baños, Jonathan D Mitchell, John A Rhodes

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Article in Journal of mathematical biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Elizabeth S AllmanDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA.
Hector BañosDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Jonathan D MitchellDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA.
John A RhodesDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA. j.rhodes@alaska.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9921-1091
University of Alaska Fairbanks · USDalhousie University · CAUniversity of Tasmania · AU

Funding

The Administrative CoreP20GM103395 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS · PI BRIAN M BARNES · 2012 to 2026
$66.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS 2P20GM103395NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103395
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inference of species networks from genomic data under the Network Multispecies Coalescent Model is currently severely limited by heavy computational demands. It also remains unclear how complicated networks can be for consistent inference to be possible. As a step toward inferring a general species network, this work considers its tree of blobs, in which non-cut edges are contracted to nodes, so only tree-like relationships between the taxa are shown. An identifiability theorem, that most features of the unrooted tree of blobs can be determined from the distribution of gene quartet topologies, is established. This depends upon an analysis of gene quartet concordance factors under the model, together with a new combinatorial inference rule. The arguments for this theoretical result suggest a practical algorithm for tree of blobs inference, to be fully developed in a subsequent work.

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GenomicsNetwork multispecies coalescent modelPhylogeneticsPhylogenomicsSpecies networkTree of blobs

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PMID36472708
PMCPMC10062380
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