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Graph Triangulations and the Compatibility of Unrooted Phylogenetic Trees

Discrete Mathematics 2010-04-26 v1

Abstract

We characterize the compatibility of a collection of unrooted phylogenetic trees as a question of determining whether a graph derived from these trees --- the display graph --- has a specific kind of triangulation, which we call legal. Our result is a counterpart to the well known triangulation-based characterization of the compatibility of undirected multi-state characters.

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@article{arxiv.1004.4196,
  title  = {Graph Triangulations and the Compatibility of Unrooted Phylogenetic Trees},
  author = {Sudheer Vakati and David Fernández-Baca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4196},
  year   = {2010}
}