TY - JOUR AU - Lautenschlager, Ulrich AU - Wagner, Florian AU - Oberprieler, Christoph PY - 2020 DA - 2020/10/07 TI - AllCoPol: inferring allele co-ancestry in polyploids JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 441 VL - 21 IS - 1 AB - Inferring phylogenetic relationships of polyploid species and their diploid ancestors (leading to reticulate phylogenies in the case of an allopolyploid origin) based on multi-locus sequence data is complicated by the unknown assignment of alleles found in polyploids to diploid subgenomes. A parsimony-based approach to this problem has been proposed by Oberprieler et al. (Methods Ecol Evol 8:835–849, 2017), however, its implementation is of limited practical value. In addition to previously identified shortcomings, it has been found that in some cases, the obtained results barely satisfy the applied criterion. To be of better use to other researchers, a reimplementation with methodological refinement appears to be indispensable. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-03750-9 DO - 10.1186/s12859-020-03750-9 ID - Lautenschlager2020 ER -