Using Trees to Capture Reticulate Evolution : Lateral Gene Transfers and Cancer Progression

The historic relationship of species and genes are traditionally depicted using trees. However, not all evolutionary histories are adequately captured by bifurcating processes and an increasing amount of research is devoted towards using networks or network-like structures to capture evolutionary hi...

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Main Author: Tofigh, Ali
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: KTH, Beräkningsbiologi, CB 2009
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-10608
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