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© 2008 Society of Systematic Biologists
Discordance of Species Trees with Their Most Likely Gene Trees: The Case of Five Taxa
1 Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan 100 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2218, USA; E-mail: rnoah{at}umich.edu (N.A.R.)
2 Center for Computational Medicine and Biology, University of Michigan 100 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2218, USA
3 The Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan 100 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-2218, USA
Edited by Laura Kubatko
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Under a coalescent model for within-species evolution, gene trees may differ from species trees to such an extent that the gene tree topology most likely to evolve along the branches of a species tree can disagree with the species tree topology. Gene tree topologies that are more likely to be produced than the topology that matches that of the species tree are termed anomalous, and the region of branch-length space that gives rise to anomalous gene trees (AGTs) is the anomaly zone. We examine the occurrence of anomalous gene trees for the case of five taxa, the smallest number of taxa for which every species tree topology has a nonempty anomaly zone. Considering all sets of branch lengths that give rise to anomalous gene trees, the largest value possible for the smallest branch length in the species tree is greater in the five-taxon case (0.1934 coalescent time units) than in the previously studied case of four taxa (0.1568). The five-taxon case demonstrates the existence of three phenomena that do not occur in the four-taxon case. First, anomalous gene trees can have the same unlabeled topology as the species tree. Second, the anomaly zone does not necessarily enclose a ball centered at the origin in branch-length space, in which all branches are short. Third, as a branch length increases, it is possible for the number of AGTs to increase rather than decrease or remain constant. These results, which help to describe how the properties of anomalous gene trees increase in complexity as the number of taxa increases, will be useful in formulating strategies for evading the problem of anomalous gene trees during species tree inference from multilocus data.
Keywords: Coalescence; lineage sorting; probability
Received May 5, 2007; Revised August 9, 2007; Accepted November 15, 2007
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