TY - JOUR AU - Chaudhary, Ruchi AU - Burleigh, John Gordon AU - Fernández-Baca, David PY - 2013 DA - 2013/11/01 TI - Inferring species trees from incongruent multi-copy gene trees using the Robinson-Foulds distance JO - Algorithms for Molecular Biology SP - 28 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - Constructing species trees from multi-copy gene trees remains a challenging problem in phylogenetics. One difficulty is that the underlying genes can be incongruent due to evolutionary processes such as gene duplication and loss, deep coalescence, or lateral gene transfer. Gene tree estimation errors may further exacerbate the difficulties of species tree estimation. SN - 1748-7188 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-7188-8-28 DO - 10.1186/1748-7188-8-28 ID - Chaudhary2013 ER -