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MSCquartets 3.3: Fast Inference of Species Networks and Trees of Blobs under the Multispecies Coalescent

MSCquartets 3.3: Fast Inference of Species Networks and Trees of Blobs under the Multispecies Coalescent

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Authors

John A. Rhodes, Elizabeth S. Allman, Cécile Ané, Hector Banos, Jonathan D. Mitchell, Kristina Wicke

Abstract

The R package MSCquartets offers a suite of methods for testing and inferring species relationships from gene trees under coalescent models.
MSCquartets 3.3 significantly extends the functionality of version 1.0 by implementing the TINNiK and ECToBlob algorithms for inference of the tree of blobs under the network multispecies coalescent model (NMSC). Additionally, it implements the NANUQ+ algorithm, a fast method for inference of level-1 networks. Computational speed of all functionalities is greatly improved through use of C++ routines, and a Shiny App is introduced for easier exploration of basic analyses.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32942/X24D5W

Subjects

Bioinformatics

Keywords

phylogenetic network, admixture graph, network multispecies coalescent, hybridization, gene flow, admixture, admixture, network multispecies coalescent, hybridization, admixture graph, gene flow

Dates

Published: 2026-06-09 09:03

Last Updated: 2026-06-09 09:03

License

CC BY Attribution 4.0 International

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Data and Code Availability Statement:
https://cran.r-project.org/package=MSCquartets

Language:
English