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Activity Number: 141
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, July 30, 2007 : 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #309395
Title: Bayes Estimation of Hybridization in Species Phylogeny Based on Incongruent Gene Topologies
Author(s): Chen Meng*+
Companies: University of New Mexico
Address: 521 Spruce St SE Apt 308, Albuquerque, NM, 87106,
Keywords: phylogenetics ; hybridization ; coalescence ; Bayesian
Abstract:

Evolutionary inference via phylogenetic trees has been increasingly performed on DNA sequence data from multiple genes for a set of organisms. Both incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization (gene flow between distinct species) may cause topological incongruence between species tree and gene trees. We develop a model that assumes independent evolution across genes and allows both deep coalescence and hybridization. Frequentist tests and Bayesian approaches are used to detect hybrid speciation. The Bayesian method incorporates prior knowledge about hybridization. An MCMC algorithm is implemented to estimate the proportion of the genes that are derived from each parental species under the model and to determine which factor (hybridization or coalescence) is primarily responsible for variation in individual gene histories. We apply the method to simulated and real data.


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