Abstract
Discrete Fourier transformations have recently been developed to model the evolution of two-state characters (the Cavender/Farris model). We report here the extension of these transformations to provide invertible relationships between a phylogenetic tree T (with three probability parameters of nucleotide substitution on each edge corresponding to Kimura's 3ST model) and the expected frequencies of the nucleotide patterns in the sequences. We refer to these relationships as spectral analysis. In either model with independent and identically distributed site substitutions, spectral analysis allows a global correction for all multiple substitutions (second- and higher-order interactions), independent of any particular tree. From these corrected data we use a least-squares selection procedure, the closest tree algorithm, to infer an evolutionary tree. Other selection criteria such as parsimony or compatibility analysis could also be used; each of these criteria will be statistically consistent for these models. The closest tree algorithm selects a unique best-fit phylogenetic tree together with independent edge length parameters for each edge. The method is illustrated with an analysis of some primate hemoglobin sequences.
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