Minimum variance rooting of phylogenetic trees and implications for species tree reconstruction.

Phylogenetic trees inferred using commonly-used models of sequence evolution are unrooted, but the root position matters both for interpretation and downstream applications. This issue has been long recognized; however, whether the potential for discordance between the species tree and gene trees im...

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Main Authors: Uyen Mai, Erfan Sayyari, Siavash Mirarab
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5553649?pdf=render