Statistical Phylogenetic Tree Analysis Using Differences of Means

Details Statistical Phylogenetic Tree Analysis Using Differences of Means Statistical Phylogenetic Tree Analysis Using Differences of Means

2010-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/1004.2101v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

17 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

We propose a statistical method to test whether two phylogenetic trees with given alignments are significantly incongruent. Our method compares the two distributions of phylogenetic trees given by the input alignments, instead of comparing point estimations of trees. This statistical approach can be applied to gene tree analysis for example, detecting unusual events in genome evolution such as horizontal gene transfer and reshuffling. Our method uses difference of means to compare two distributions of trees, after embedding trees in a vector space. Bootstrapping alignment columns can then be applied to obtain p-values. To compute distances between means, we employ a "kernel trick" which speeds up distance calculations when trees are embedded in a high-dimensional feature space, e.g. splits or quartets feature space. In this pilot study, first we test our statistical method's ability to distinguish between sets of gene trees generated under coalescence models with species trees of varying dissimilarity. We follow our simulation results with applications to various data sets of gophers and lice, grasses and their endophytes, and different fungal genes from the same genome. A companion toolkit, {\tt Phylotree}, is provided to facilitate computational experiments.

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