@article{PAR00014435, title = {{S}ylv{X} : a viewer for phylogenetic tree reconciliations}, author = {{C}hevenet, {F}ran{\c{c}}ois and {D}oyon, {J}. {P}. and {S}cornavacca, {C}. and {J}acox, {E}. and {J}ousselin, {E}. and {B}erry, {V}.}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{M}otivation: {R}econciliation methods aim at recovering the evolutionary processes that shaped the history of a given gene family including events such as duplications, transfers and losses by comparing the discrepancies between the topologies of the associated gene and species trees. {T}hese methods are also used in the framework of host/parasite studies to recover co-diversification scenarios including co-speciation events, host-switches and extinctions. {T}hese evolutionary processes can be graphically represented as nested trees. {T}hese interconnected graphs can be visually messy and hard to interpret, and despite the fact that reconciliations are increasingly used, there is a shortage of tools dedicated to their graphical management. {H}ere we present {S}ylv{X}, a reconciliation viewer which implements classical phylogenetic graphic operators (swapping, highlighting, etc.) and new methods to ease interpretation and comparison of reconciliations (multiple maps, moving, shrinking sub-reconciliations).}, keywords = {}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{B}ioinformatics}, volume = {32}, numero = {4}, pages = {608--613}, ISSN = {1367-4803}, year = {2016}, DOI = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btv625}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/{PAR}00014435}, }