Optimal Pointer Algorithms for Finding Nearest Common Ancestors in Dynamic Trees

2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Alstrup ◽  
Mikkel Thorup
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. eabe2741
Author(s):  
Paschalia Kapli ◽  
Paschalis Natsidis ◽  
Daniel J. Leite ◽  
Maximilian Fursman ◽  
Nadia Jeffrie ◽  
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The bilaterally symmetric animals (Bilateria) are considered to comprise two monophyletic groups, Protostomia (Ecdysozoa and the Lophotrochozoa) and Deuterostomia (Chordata and the Xenambulacraria). Recent molecular phylogenetic studies have not consistently supported deuterostome monophyly. Here, we compare support for Protostomia and Deuterostomia using multiple, independent phylogenomic datasets. As expected, Protostomia is always strongly supported, especially by longer and higher-quality genes. Support for Deuterostomia, however, is always equivocal and barely higher than support for paraphyletic alternatives. Conditions that cause tree reconstruction errors—inadequate models, short internal branches, faster evolving genes, and unequal branch lengths—coincide with support for monophyletic deuterostomes. Simulation experiments show that support for Deuterostomia could be explained by systematic error. The branch between bilaterian and deuterostome common ancestors is, at best, very short, supporting the idea that the bilaterian ancestor may have been deuterostome-like. Our findings have important implications for the understanding of early animal evolution.


1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 612-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Goodrich ◽  
Roberto Tamassia
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2016 ◽  
pp. 605-609
Author(s):  
Renato F. Werneck
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2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1235-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu-Bo Zhang ◽  
Jian-Huang Lai

Measuring the semantic similarity between pairs of terms in Gene Ontology (GO) can help to compare genes that can not be compared by other computational methods. In this study, we proposed an integrated information-based similarity measurement (IISM) to calculate the semantic similarity between two GO terms by taking into account multiple common ancestors that they share, and aggregating the semantic information and depth information of the non-redundant common ancestors. Our method searches for non-redundant common ancestors in an effective way. Validation experiments were conducted on both gene expression dataset and pathway dataset, and the experimental results suggest the superiority of our method against some existing methods.


1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Aho ◽  
Y. Sagiv ◽  
T. G. Szymanski ◽  
J. D. Ullman
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1995 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 635-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL A. PALIS ◽  
JING-CHIOU LIOU ◽  
SANGUTHEVAR RAJASEKARAN ◽  
SUNIL SHENDE ◽  
DAVID S.L. WEI

The scheduling problem for dynamic tree-structured task graphs is studied and is shown to be inherently more difficult than the static case. It is shown that any online scheduling algorithm, deterministic or randomized, has competitive ratio Ω((1/g)/ log d(1/g)) for trees with granularity g and degree at most d. On the other hand, it is known that static trees with arbitrary granularity can be scheduled to within twice the optimal schedule. It is also shown that the lower bound is tight: there is a deterministic online tree scheduling algorithm that has competitive ratio O((1/g)/ log d(1/g)). Thus, randomization does not help.


2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Alstrup ◽  
Cyril Gavoille ◽  
Haim Kaplan ◽  
Theis Rauhe

Author(s):  
Robert E. Tarjan ◽  
Renato F. Werneck
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