New methods to calculate concordance factors for phylogenomic datasets

Bui Quang Minh, Matthew W. Hahn, Robert Lanfear*

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    Abstract

    We implement two measures for quantifying genealogical concordance in phylogenomic data sets: The gene concordance factor (gCF) and the novel site concordance factor (sCF). For every branch of a reference tree, gCF is defined as the percentage of "decisive"gene trees containing that branch. This measure is already in wide usage, but here we introduce a package that calculates it while accounting for variable taxon coverage among gene trees. sCF is a new measure defined as the percentage of decisive sites supporting a branch in the reference tree. gCF and sCF complement classical measures of branch support in phylogenetics by providing a full description of underlying disagreement among loci and sites. An easy to use implementation and tutorial is freely available in the IQ-TREE software package (http://www.iqtree.org/doc/ Concordance-Factor, last accessed May 13, 2020).

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)2727-2733
    Number of pages7
    JournalMolecular Biology and Evolution
    Volume37
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2020

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