DescriptionGophers and lices tanglegrams and reconciliation scenarios.svg
English: Pocket gophers (Mammalia : Rodentia) and their chewing lice (Insecta : Phthyraptera) is a well studied system of host and symbiont coevolution. The phylogeny of host and symbiont and the matching of their leaves are depicted on the left. For the host, O. stands for Orthogeomys, G. for Geomys and T. for Thomomys; for the symbiont, G. stands for Geomydoecus and T. for Thomoydoecus.
Reconciling the two trees consists in giving a scenario with evolutionary events and matching on the ancestral nodes depicting the coevolution of the two trees. The events considered in this system are the events of the DTL model: duplication, transfer (or host switch), loss, and cospeciation, the null event of coevolution.
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Gophers and lices cophylogeny with tanglegram and two proposed scenarios of reconciliation.