Phylogeny reconstruction using duplicate genes
Phylogeny reconstruction using duplicate genes
复制标题
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026327
复制
发表时间:
2000-04-01
影响因子:
10.7
通讯作者:
Nixon, KC
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Simmons, MP;Bailey, CD;Nixon, KC
in this paper, we propose a new method (uninode coding) for coding duplicate (paralogous) genes to infer species trees. Uninode coding incorporates data from duplicated and unduplicated gene copies in phylogenetic analyses of taxa. Uninode coding utilizes global parsimony through the inclusion of both duplicated and unduplicated gene copies, allows one to code all data sources from a taxon into a single terminal, and overcomes problems of character dependence among duplicated and unduplicated gene copies. We present an example of uninode coding using the phytochrome A and phytochrome C data from a study by Donoghue and Mathews.