Inferring species trees from gene trees: combinatorial approaches

Inferring species trees from gene trees: combinatorial approaches

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Mar 20, 2013, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM | 740 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Elizabeth Allman, University of Alaska (Speaker)
Species trees, which display evolutionary relationships between a collection of taxa, and gene trees, which display similar ancestral relationships between genes sampled from individuals representing the taxa, do not necessarily agree. Among the biological reasons for this is the population genetic effect of incomplete lineage sorting, which is modeled by the multispecies coalescent. In this...