Universal rooted phylogenetic tree shapes and universal tanglegrams
Combinatorics
2023-08-15 v1
Abstract
We provide an lower bound and an upper bound for the smallest size of rooted binary trees (a.k.a. phylogenetic tree shapes), which are universal for rooted binary trees with leaves, i.e., contain all of them as induced binary subtrees. We explicitly compute the smallest universal trees for . We also provide an lower bound and an upper bound for the smallest size of tanglegrams, which are universal for size tanglegrams, i.e., which contain all of them as induced subtanglegrams. Some of our results generalize to rooted -ary trees and to -ary tanglegrams.
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@article{arxiv.2308.06580,
title = {Universal rooted phylogenetic tree shapes and universal tanglegrams},
author = {Ann Clifton and Eva Czabarka and Kevin Liu and Sarah Loeb and Utku Okur and Laszlo Szekely and Kristina Wicke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.06580},
year = {2023}
}
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18 pages, 14 figures