Inferring metric trees from weighted quartets via an intertaxon distance

DOI10.1007/s11538-020-00773-4zbMath1448.92156arXiv2002.04564OpenAlexW3043220456WikidataQ97533088 ScholiaQ97533088MaRDI QIDQ786063

John A. Rhodes, Samaneh Yourdkhani

Publication date: 12 August 2020

Published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04564

zbMATH Keywords

distancephylogenetic treemultispecies coalescentquartetconsensus tree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Taxonomy, cladistics, statistics in mathematical biology (92B10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

Uses Software

• ape
• ASTRAL-II
• ASTRID
• FastMe
• MSCquartets

Cites Work

• Identifying the rooted species tree from the distribution of unrooted gene trees under the coalescent
• Some uses of the Farris transform in mathematics and phylogenetics -- A review
• Encoding phylogenetic trees in terms of weighted quartets
• \(X\)-trees and weighted quartet systems
• Reconstructing trees from subtree weights.