Abstract
We consider phylogeny estimation under a two-state model of sequence evolution by site substitution on a tree. In the asymptotic regime where the sequence lengths tend to infinity, we show that for any fixed k no statistically consistent phylogeny estimation is possible from k-mer counts over the full leaf sequences alone. Formally, we establish that the joint distribution of k-mer counts over the entire leaf sequences on two distinct trees have total variation distance bounded away from 1 as the sequence length tends to infinity. Our impossibility result implies that statistical consistency requires more sophisticated use of k-mer count information, such as block techniques developed in previous theoretical work.
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