2017/03/15 by Huda Al-Nayyef, Christophe Guyeux, Al-Nayyef, Huda +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #FOS: Biological sciences #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Machine Learning in Bioinformatics #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE) #Protist diversity and phylogeny
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1703.05099
openalex publication_date 2017/03/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Variations in mitochondrial genes are usually considered to infer\nphylogenies. However some of these genes are lesser constraint than other ones,\nand thus may blur the phylogenetic signals shared by the majority of the\nmitochondrial DNA sequences. To investigate such effects, in this research\nwork, the molecular phylogeny of the genus Taenia is studied using 14 coding\nsequences extracted from mitochondrial genomes of 17 species. We constructed\n16,384 trees, using a combination of 1 up to 14 genes. We obtained 131\ntopologies, and we showed that only four particular instances were relevant.\nUsing further statistical investigations, we then extracted a particular\ntopology, which displays more robustness properties.\n