Tangled trees from multiple markers: reconciling conflict between phylogenies to build molecular supertrees

  • Cotton J
  • Page R
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Abstract

Supertree methods combine information from multiple phylogenies into a larger, composite phylogeny, resolving any conflict between them. On the other hand, there are many approaches to combined analysis of different data sets for similar or identical taxon sets, a subject that has been of interest to systematists over a long period of time. Gene tree parsimony is a method, related to supertree techniques but having a different conceptual background, which can combine data from molecular phylogenies for overlapping taxon sets and interprets conflict between these phylogenies in a biologically meaningful way. We review the method and discuss the relationship between gene tree parsimony and supertree methods.

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Cotton, J. A., & Page, R. D. M. (2004). Tangled trees from multiple markers: reconciling conflict between phylogenies to build molecular supertrees. In O. Bininda-Emonds (Ed.), Phylogenetic Supertrees: Combining Information to Reveal the Tree of Life (pp. 107–125). Dordrecht: Kluwer.

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