Biology – Quantitative Biology – Populations and Evolution
Scientific paper
2009-12-29
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Populations and Evolution
29 pages, including 11 figures and 2 tables
Scientific paper
Phylogenomics, even more so than traditional phylogenetics, needs to represent the uncertainty in evolutionary trees due to systematic error. Here we illustrate the analysis of genome-scale alignments of yeast, using robust measures of the additivity of the fit of distances to tree when using flexi Weighted Least Squares. A variety of DNA and protein distances are used. We explore the nature of the residuals, standardize them, and then create replicate data sets by resampling these residuals. Under the model, the results are shown to be very similar to the conventional sequence bootstrap. With real data they show up uncertainty in the tree that is either due to underestimating the stochastic error (hence massively overestimating the effective sequence length) and/or systematic error. The methods are extended to the very fast BME criterion with similarly promising results.
Azad Ariful
Waddell Peter J.
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