Biology – Quantitative Biology – Populations and Evolution
Scientific paper
2007-08-27
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Populations and Evolution
37 pages
Scientific paper
Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that allow for the representation of non-treelike evolutionary events, like recombination, hybridization, or lateral gene transfer. In this paper, we present and study a new class of phylogenetic networks, called tree-child phylogenetic networks, where every non-extant species has some descendant through mutation. We provide an injective representation of these networks as multisets of vectors of natural numbers, their path multiplicity vectors, and we use this representation to define a distance on this class and to give an alignment method for pairs of these networks. To the best of our knowledge, they are respectively the first true distance and the first alignment method defined on a meaningful class of phylogenetic networks strictly extending the class of phylogenetic trees. Simple, polynomial algorithms for reconstructing a tree-child phylogenetic network from its path multiplicity vectors, for computing the distance between two tree-child phylogenetic networks, and for aligning a pair of tree-child phylogenetic networks, are provided, and they have been implemented as a Perl package and a Java applet, and they are available at http://bioinfo.uib.es/~recerca/phylonetworks/mudistance
Cardona Gabriel
Rossello Francesc
Valiente Gabriel
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