Inferring species trees directly from biallelic genetic markers: bypassing gene trees in a full coalescent analysis

D Bryant, R Bouckaert, J Felsenstein… - Molecular biology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The multispecies coalescent provides an elegant theoretical framework for estimating
species trees and species demographics from genetic markers. However, practical …

The multispecies coalescent model and species tree inference

B Rannala, A Leache, S Edwards, Z Yang - 2020 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The multispecies coalescent (MSC) is an extension of the single-population coalescent
model of population genetics to the case of multiple species. The MSC naturally …

Bayesian inference of species trees from multilocus data

J Heled, AJ Drummond - Molecular biology and evolution, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Until recently, it has been common practice for a phylogenetic analysis to use a single gene
sequence from a single individual organism as a proxy for an entire species. With …

Estimating species trees using multiple-allele DNA sequence data

L Liu, DK Pearl, RT Brumfield, SV Edwards - Evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Several techniques, such as concatenation and consensus methods, are available for
combining data from multiple loci to produce a single statement of phylogenetic …

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 …

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 …

Coalescent methods for estimating phylogenetic trees

L Liu, L Yu, L Kubatko, DK Pearl, SV Edwards - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2009 - Elsevier
We review recent models to estimate phylogenetic trees under the multispecies coalescent.
Although the distinction between gene trees and species trees has come to the fore of …

Species tree inference with BPP using genomic sequences and the multispecies coalescent

T Flouri, X Jiao, B Rannala… - Molecular biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The multispecies coalescent provides a natural framework for accommodating ancestral
genetic polymorphism and coalescent processes that can cause different genomic regions …

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 …

Coalescent methods for estimating species trees from phylogenomic data

L Liu, S Wu, L Yu - Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐scale sequence data have become increasingly available in the phylogenetic
studies for understanding the evolutionary histories of species. However, it is challenging to …