Title
On Mechanistic Modeling Of Gene Content Evolution: Birth-Death Models And Mechanisms Of Gene Birth And Gene Retention
Abstract
Characterizing the mechanisms of duplicate gene retention using phylogenetic methods requires models that are consistent with different biological processes. The interplay between complex biological processes and necessarily simpler statistical models leads to a complex modeling problem. A discussion of the relationship between biological processes, existing models for duplicate gene retention and data is presented. Existing models are then extended in deriving two new birth/death models for phylogenetic application in a gene tree/species tree reconciliation framework to enable probabilistic inference of the mechanisms from model parameterization. The goal of this work is to synthesize a detailed discussion of modeling duplicate genes to address biological questions, moving from previous work to future trajectories with the aim of generating better models and better inference.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3390/computation2030112
COMPUTATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
gene duplication, gene loss, phylogeny, gene tree/species tree reconciliation, stochastic models, birth/death processes
Phylogenetic tree,Gene,Biology,Inference,Statistical model,Stochastic modelling,Computational biology,Genetics,Mechanism (philosophy),Phylogenetics,Gene duplication
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
3
2079-3197
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ashley I. Teufel100.34
Jing Zhao200.34
Małgorzata M. O’Reilly3162.30
Liang Liu411.55
David A Liberles5482.96