A polynomial time algorithm for calculating the probability of a ranked gene tree given a species tree

Algorithms for Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Stadler, Tanja ^a   Degnan, James H ^b,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous gene tree; Coalescent history; Dynamic programming; Incomplete lineage sorting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877042558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17487188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7188-7-7     Document Type: Article

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