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Gene Duplication is the problem of computing an optimal species tree for a given set of gene trees under the Gene-Duplication Model (first introduced by Goodman et al.). The problem is known to be NP-complete. We give a fixed-parameter-tractable algorithm solving the problem parameterized by the number of gene duplications necessary to rectify the gene trees with respect to the species tree.
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Stege, U. (1999). Gene Trees and Species Trees: The Gene-Duplication Problem is Fixed-Parameter Tractable. In: Dehne, F., Sack, JR., Gupta, A., Tamassia, R. (eds) Algorithms and Data Structures. WADS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1663. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48447-7_29
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