Reconciling Multiple Genes Trees via Segmental Duplications and Losses

06/11/2018
by   Riccardo Dondi, et al.
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Reconciling gene trees with a species tree is a fundamental problem to understand the evolution of gene families. Many existing approaches reconcile each gene tree independently. However, it is well-known that the evolution of gene families is interconnected. In this paper, we extend a previous approach to reconcile a set of gene trees with a species tree based on segmental macro-evolutionary events, where segmental duplication events and losses are associated with cost δ and λ, respectively. We show that the problem is polynomial-time solvable when δ≤λ (via LCA-mapping), while if δ > λ the problem is NP-hard, even when λ = 0 and a single gene tree is given, solving a long standing open problem on the complexity of the reconciliation problem. On the positive side, we give a fixed-parameter algorithm for the problem, where the parameters are δ/λ and the number d of segmental duplications, of time complexity O(δ/λ^d· n ·δ/λ). Finally, we demonstrate the usefulness of this algorithm on two previously studied real datasets: we first show that our method can be used to confirm or refute hypothetical segmental duplications on a set of 16 eukaryotes, then show how we can detect whole genome duplications in yeast genomes.

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