Date of Award
5-17-2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
Species network inference is a challenging problem in phylogenetics. In this work, we present two results on this. The first shows that many topological features of a level-1 network are identifable under the network multispecies coalescent model (NMSC). Specifcally, we show that one can identify from gene tree frequencies the unrooted semidirected species network, after suppressing all cycles of size less than 4. The second presents the theory behind a new, statistically consistent, practical method for the inference of level-1 networks under the NMSC. The input for this algorithm is a collection of unrooted topological gene trees, and the output is an unrooted semidirected species network.
Recommended Citation
Baños Cervantes, Hector Daniel, "Species network inference under the multispecies coalescent model" (2019). Mathematics and Statistics . 37.
https://ualaska.researchcommons.org/uaf_grad_math_stats/37
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/11122/10482