Advances in Phylogeny Reconstruction from Gene Order and Content Data

Abstract

Genomes can be viewed in terms of their gene content and the order in which the genes appear along each chromosome. Evolutionary events that affect the gene order or content are "rare genomic events" (rarer than events that affect the composition of the nucleotide sequences) and have been advocated by systematists for inferring deep evolutionary histories. This chapter surveys recent developments in the reconstruction of phylogenies from gene order and content, focusing on their performance under various stochastic models of evolution. Because such methods are currently quite restricted in the type of data they can analyze, we also present current research aimed at handling the full range of whole-genome data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 18, 2004
Accession Number
ADA483097

Entities

People

  • Bernard M. Moret
  • Tandy Warnow

Organizations

  • University of New Mexico

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  • Algorithms
  • Biology
  • Cells
  • Chromosomes
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Science
  • Estimators
  • Genetics
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Mathematics
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • New Mexico
  • Organelles
  • Personal Information Managers
  • Probability
  • Sequences
  • Simulations

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  • Biology

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  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference