Evaluating summary methods for multilocus species tree estimation in the presence of incomplete lineage sorting

S Mirarab, MS Bayzid, T Warnow - Systematic Biology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Species tree estimation is complicated by processes, such as gene duplication and loss and
incomplete lineage sorting (ILS), that cause discordance between gene trees and the …

On the robustness to gene tree estimation error (or lack thereof) of coalescent-based species tree methods

S Roch, T Warnow - Systematic Biology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The estimation of species trees using multiple loci has become increasingly common.
Because different loci can have different phylogenetic histories (reflected in different gene …

The performance of coalescent-based species tree estimation methods under models of missing data

M Nute, J Chou, EK Molloy, T Warnow - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Estimation of species trees from multiple genes is complicated by processes
such as incomplete lineage sorting, gene duplication and loss, and horizontal gene transfer …

Challenges in species tree estimation under the multispecies coalescent model

B Xu, Z Yang - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The multispecies coalescent (MSC) model has emerged as a powerful framework for
inferring species phylogenies while accounting for ancestral polymorphism and gene tree …

Genes with minimal phylogenetic information are problematic for coalescent analyses when gene tree estimation is biased

Z Xi, L Liu, CC Davis - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2015 - Elsevier
The development and application of coalescent methods are undergoing rapid changes.
One little explored area that bears on the application of gene-tree-based coalescent …

A comparative study of SVDquartets and other coalescent-based species tree estimation methods

J Chou, A Gupta, S Yaduvanshi, R Davidson, M Nute… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Species tree estimation is challenging in the presence of incomplete lineage
sorting (ILS), which can make gene trees different from the species tree. Because ILS is …

To include or not to include: the impact of gene filtering on species tree estimation methods

EK Molloy, T Warnow - Systematic biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
With the increasing availability of whole genome data, many species trees are being
constructed from hundreds to thousands of loci. Although concatenation analysis using …

Species tree inference methods intended to deal with incomplete lineage sorting are robust to the presence of paralogs

Z Yan, ML Smith, P Du, MW Hahn… - Systematic Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Many recent phylogenetic methods have focused on accurately inferring species trees when
there is gene tree discordance due to incomplete lineage sorting (ILS). For almost all of …

Estimating phylogenetic trees from genome‐scale data

L Liu, Z Xi, S Wu, CC Davis… - Annals of the New York …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The heterogeneity of signals in the genomes of diverse organisms poses challenges for
traditional phylogenetic analysis. Phylogenetic methods known as “species tree” methods …

DISCO: species tree inference using multicopy gene family tree decomposition

J Willson, MS Roddur, B Liu, P Zaharias… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Species tree inference from gene family trees is a significant problem in computational
biology. However, gene tree heterogeneity, which can be caused by several factors …