Phylogenetic information complexity: Is testing a tree easier than finding it?

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2008-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/0807.1756v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

15 pages, 3 figures

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Phylogenetic trees describe the evolutionary history of a group of present-day species from a common ancestor. These trees are typically reconstructed from aligned DNA sequence data. In this paper we analytically address the following question: is the amount of sequence data required to accurately reconstruct a tree significantly more than the amount required to test whether or not a candidate tree was the `true' tree? By `significantly', we mean that the two quantities behave the same way as a function of the number of species being considered. We prove that, for a certain type of model, the amount of information required is not significantly different; while for another type of model, the information required to test a tree is independent of the number of leaves, while that required to reconstruct it grows with this number. Our results combine probabilistic and combinatorial arguments.

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