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Reconciling Gene Trees to a Species Tree

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In this paper we deal with the general problem of recombining the information from evolutionary trees representing the relationships between distinct gene families. First we solve a problem from [8] regarding the construction of a minimum reconciled tree by giving an efficient algorithm. Then we show that the exemplar problem, arising from the exemplar analysis of multigene genomes [2], is NP-hard even when the number of copies of a given label is at most two. Finally we introduce two novel formulations for the problem of recombining evolutionary trees, extending the notion of the gene duplication problem studied in [88,11,9,10,6], and we give an exact algorithm (via dynamic programming) for one of the formulations given.

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Bonizzoni, P., Della Vedova, G., Dondi, R. (2003). Reconciling Gene Trees to a Species Tree. In: Petreschi, R., Persiano, G., Silvestri, R. (eds) Algorithms and Complexity. CIAC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44849-7_18

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