# Taenia Biomolecular Phylogeny and the Impact of Mitochondrial Genes on this Latter

## TL;DR

This study investigates how mitochondrial gene variations influence the phylogenetic analysis of the genus Taenia, identifying the most robust gene combinations for accurate evolutionary inference.

## Contribution

It analyzes the impact of different mitochondrial gene combinations on phylogenetic tree robustness in Taenia species, highlighting the importance of specific genes for reliable phylogeny.

## Key findings

- Only four gene combinations yielded relevant topologies.
- A particular topology was identified with enhanced robustness.
- Mitochondrial gene variability affects phylogenetic inference accuracy.

## Abstract

Variations in mitochondrial genes are usually considered to infer phylogenies. However some of these genes are lesser constraint than other ones, and thus may blur the phylogenetic signals shared by the majority of the mitochondrial DNA sequences. To investigate such effects, in this research work, the molecular phylogeny of the genus Taenia is studied using 14 coding sequences extracted from mitochondrial genomes of 17 species. We constructed 16,384 trees, using a combination of 1 up to 14 genes. We obtained 131 topologies, and we showed that only four particular instances were relevant. Using further statistical investigations, we then extracted a particular topology, which displays more robustness properties.