Determining phylogenetic networks from inter-taxa distances.

J Math Biol

Biomathematics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Published: August 2016

We consider the problem of determining the topological structure of a phylogenetic network given only information about the path-length distances between taxa. In particular, one of the main results of the paper shows that binary tree-child networks are essentially determined by such information.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-015-0950-8DOI Listing

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