title: Discordance of species trees with their most likely gene trees: a unifying principle.
abstract: A labeled gene tree topology that disagrees with a labeled species tree topology is said to be anomalous if it is more probable under a coalescent model for gene lineage evolution than the labeled gene tree topology that matches the species tree. It has previously been shown that as a consequence of short internal branches of the species tree, for every labeled species tree topology with five or more taxa, and for asymmetric four-taxon species tree topologies, an assignment of species tree branch lengths can be made which gives rise to anomalous gene trees (AGTs). Here, I offer an alternative characterization of this result--a labeled species tree topology produces AGTs if and only if it contains two consecutive internal branches in an ancestor-descendant relationship--and I provide a proof that follows from the change in perspective. The reformulation and alternative proof of the existence result for AGTs provide the insight that it is not merely short internal branches that generate AGTs, but instead, short internal branches that are arranged consecutively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Stanford University.
authors.forename: Noah A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
mesh_terms: D002965:Classification; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005796:Genes; D049810:Genetic Speciation; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D011336:Probability; D013045:Species Specificity
keywords: anomalous gene trees; coalescent; species trees
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