Comparison of orchard networks using their extended μ-representation

G Cardona, JC Pons, G Ribas… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phylogenetic networks generalize phylogenetic trees in order to model reticulation events.
Although the comparison of phylogenetic trees is well studied, and there are multiple ways …

Inference of phylogenetic networks from sequence data using composite likelihood

S Kong, DL Swofford, LS Kubatko - Systematic Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
While phylogenies have been essential in understanding how species evolve, they do not
adequately describe some evolutionary processes. For instance, hybridization, a common …

Recent progress on methods for estimating and updating large phylogenies

P Zaharias, T Warnow - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
With the increased availability of sequence data and even of fully sequenced and
assembled genomes, phylogeny estimation of very large trees (even of hundreds of …

Clustering systems of phylogenetic networks

M Hellmuth, D Schaller, PF Stadler - Theory in Biosciences, 2023 - Springer
Rooted acyclic graphs appear naturally when the phylogenetic relationship of a set X of taxa
involves not only speciations but also recombination, horizontal transfer, or hybridization that …

Practical guidelines for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

J Barido-Sottani, O Schwery… - Open Research …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Phylogenetic estimation is, and has always been, a complex endeavor. Estimating a
phylogenetic tree involves evaluating many possible solutions and possible evolutionary …

A 2-approximation algorithm for the softwired parsimony problem on binary, tree-child phylogenetic networks

M Frohn, S Kelk - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.18077, 2024 - arxiv.org
Finding the most parsimonious tree inside a phylogenetic network with respect to a given
character is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that for many network …

Mathematically tractable models of random phylogenetic networks: an overview of some recent developments

F Bienvenu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13574, 2024 - arxiv.org
Models of random phylogenetic networks have been used since the inception of the field,
but the introduction and rigorous study of mathematically tractable models is a much more …

Transformations to simplify phylogenetic networks

J Heiss, DH Huson, M Steel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16156, 2024 - arxiv.org
The evolutionary relationships between species are typically represented in the biological
literature by rooted phylogenetic trees. However, a tree fails to capture ancestral reticulate …

Statistical learning with phylogenetic network invariants

T Barton, E Gross, C Long, J Rusinko - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11919, 2022 - arxiv.org
Phylogenetic networks provide a means of describing the evolutionary history of sets of
species believed to have undergone hybridization or gene flow during their evolution. The …

Labellable phylogenetic networks

A Francis, M Steel - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2023 - Springer
Phylogenetic networks are mathematical representations of evolutionary history that are
able to capture both tree-like evolutionary processes (speciations) and non-tree-like …