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Phylogenetic networks generalise phylogenetic trees and allow for the accurate representation of the evolutionary history of a set of present-day species whose past includes reticulate events such as hybridisation and lateral gene transfer.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-05 Joan Carles Pons , Charles Semple , Mike Steel

Phylogenetic networks are a type of leaf-labelled, acyclic, directed graph used by biologists to represent the evolutionary history of species whose past includes reticulation events. A phylogenetic network is tree-child if each non-leaf…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Magnus Bordewich , Katharina T Huber , Vincent Moulton , Charles Semple

In evolutionary biology, phylogenetic networks are now widely used to represent the historical relationships between species and population, when this history includes reticulation events such as hybridization, gene flow and admixture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Gerard Ribas , Joan Carles Pons , Cécile Ané

The displayed tree phylogenetic network model is shown to sit as a natural submodel of the graphical model associated to a directed acyclic graph (DAG). This representation allows to derive a number of results about the displayed tree…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-01 Seth Sullivant

The presence of reticulate evolutionary events in phylogenies turn phylogenetic trees into phylogenetic networks. These events imply in particular that there may exist multiple evolutionary paths from a non-extant species to an extant one,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-03-21 Gabriel Cardona , Merce Llabres , Francesc Rossello , Gabriel Valiente

A phylogenetic network is a graph-theoretical tool that is used by biologists to represent the evolutionary history of a collection of species. One potential way of constructing such networks is via a distance-based approach, where one is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Leo van Iersel , Vincent Moulton , Yukihiro Murakami

In phylogenetics, tree-based networks are used to model and visualize the evolutionary history of species where reticulate events such as horizontal gene transfer have occurred. Formally, a tree-based network $N$ consists of a phylogenetic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Jonathan Klawitter , Peter Stumpf

Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that allow for representation of reticulate evolution. Recently, a space of unrooted phylogenetic networks was introduced, where such a network is a connected graph in which…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-09 Andrew Francis , Katharina Huber , Vincent Moulton , Taoyang Wu

The rich and varied ways that genetic material can be passed between species has motivated extensive research into the theory of phylogenetic networks. Features that align with biological processes, or with desirable mathematical…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-12 Andrew Francis

Phylogenetic networks are becoming of increasing interest to evolutionary biologists due to their ability to capture complex non-treelike evolutionary processes. From a combinatorial point of view, such networks are certain types of rooted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Katharina T. Huber , Guillaume E. Scholz

Phylogenetic network is an evolutionary model that uses a rooted directed acyclic graph (instead of a tree) to model an evolutionary history of species in which reticulate events (e.g., hybrid speciation or horizontal gene transfer)…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-01 Yufeng Wu , Louxin Zhang

Phylogenetic networks are useful in representing the evolutionary history of taxa. In certain scenarios, one requires a way to compare different networks. In practice, this can be rather difficult, except within specific classes of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-30 Christopher Reichling , Leo van Iersel , Yukihiro Murakami

In evolutionary biology, phylogenetic networks are graphs that provide a flexible framework for representing complex evolutionary histories that involve reticulate evolutionary events. Recently phylogenetic studies have started to focus on…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-17 Niels Holtgrefe , Katharina T. Huber , Leo van Iersel , Mark Jones , Vincent Moulton

Rooted phylogenetic networks provide a more complete representation of the ancestral relationship between species than phylogenetic trees when reticulate evolutionary processes are at play. One way to reconstruct a phylogenetic network is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Allan Bai , Peter Erdos , Charles Semple , Mike Steel

Phylogenetic networks are an extension of phylogenetic trees which are used to represent evolutionary histories in which reticulation events (such as recombination and hybridization) have occurred. A central question for such networks is…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-28 Andrew Francis , Vincent Moulton

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 to do it in an efficient way, the situation is much…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-21 Gabriel Cardona , Joan Carles Pons , Gerard Ribas , Tomás Martínez Coronado

Tree-based networks are a class of phylogenetic networks that attempt to formally capture what is meant by "tree-like" evolution. A given non-tree-based phylogenetic network, however, might appear to be very close to being tree-based, or…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-17 Mareike Fischer , Andrew Francis

A phylogenetic network is a directed acyclic graph that visualises an evolutionary history containing so-called reticulations such as recombinations, hybridisations or lateral gene transfers. Here we consider the construction of a simplest…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-05-16 Leo van Iersel , Steven Kelk

Phylogenetic trees and networks are graphs used to model evolutionary relationships, with trees representing strictly branching histories and networks allowing for events in which lineages merge, called reticulation events. While the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-17 Martin Frohn , Niels Holtgrefe , Leo van Iersel , Mark Jones , Steven Kelk

Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that allow for the representation of non-treelike evolutionary events, like recombination, hybridization, or lateral gene transfer. In this paper, we present and study a new…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-08-28 Gabriel Cardona , Francesc Rossello , Gabriel Valiente