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Consensus methods provide a useful strategy for combining information from a collection of gene trees. An important application of consensus methods is to combine gene trees to estimate a species tree. To investigate the theoretical properties of consensus trees that would be obtained from large numbers of loci evolving according to a basic evolutionary model, we construct consensus trees from independent gene trees that occur in proportion to gene tree probabilities derived from coalescent theory. We consider majority-rule, rooted triple (R*), and greedy consensus trees constructed from known gene trees, both in the asymptotic case as numbers of gene trees approach infinity and for finite numbers of genes. Our results show that for some combinations of species tree branch lengths, increasing the number of independent loci can make the majority-rule consensus tree more likely to be at least partially unresolved and the greedy consensus tree less likely to match the species tree. However, the probability that the R* consensus tree has the species tree topology approaches 1 as the number of gene trees approaches infinity. Although the greedy consensus algorithm can be the quickest to

Author

Degnan, James H.

Published

2008

Language

EN