Dating ancient splits in phylogenetic trees, with application to the human-Neanderthal split

Abstract Background We tackle the problem of estimating species TMRCAs (Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor), given a genome sequence from each species and a large known phylogenetic tree with a known structure (typically from one of the species). The number of transitions at each site from the firs...

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Main Authors: Keren Levinstein Hallak, Saharon Rosset
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-01-01
Series:BMC Genomic Data
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-023-01185-8