Supertrees join the mainstream of phylogenetics

Abstract

Supertree methods are fairly widely used to build comprehensive phylogenies for particular groups, but concerns remain over the adequacy of existing approaches. Steel and Rodrigo recently introduced a statistical model of incongruence between trees, allowing maximum-likelihood supertree inference. This approach to supertree construction will enable hypothesis-testing and model-choice methods that are now routine in sequence phylogenetics to be applied in this setting, and might form an important part of future phylogenetic inference from genomic data.

James Cotton

Professor

My research interests are in the genomics, and particularly population genomics of parasites, particularly those that cause neglected tropical diseases