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Parametric Maximum Parsimonious Reconstruction on Trees.
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PMID:  20737226     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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We give a formal study of the relationships between the transition cost parameters and the generalized maximum parsimonious reconstructions of unknown (ancestral) binary character states [Formula: see text] over a phylogenetic tree. As a main result, we show there are two thresholds [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], generally confounded, associated to each node n of the phylogenetic tree and such that there exists a maximum parsimonious reconstruction associating state [Formula: see text] to n (resp. state [Formula: see text] to n) if the ratio "[Formula: see text]-cost"/"[Formula: see text]-cost" is smaller than [Formula: see text] (resp. greater than [Formula: see text]). We propose a dynamic programming algorithm computing these thresholds in a quadratic time with the size of tree.We briefly illustrate some possible applications of this work over a biological dataset. In particular, the thresholds provide a natural way to quantify the degree of support for states reconstructed as well as to determine what kind of evolutionary assumptions in terms of costs are necessary to a given reconstruction.
Authors:
Gilles Didier
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-08-25
Journal Detail:
Title:  Bulletin of mathematical biology     Volume:  73     ISSN:  1522-9602     ISO Abbreviation:  Bull. Math. Biol.     Publication Date:  2011 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-05-18     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0401404     Medline TA:  Bull Math Biol     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1477-502     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy CNRS-UMR 6206, Campus de Luminy, Case 907, 13288, Marseille Cedex 9, France, didier@iml.univ-mrs.fr.
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