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Evolutionary histories for species that cross with one another or exchange genetic material can be represented by leaf-labelled, directed graphs called phylogenetic networks. A major challenge in the burgeoning area of phylogenetic networks…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Leo van Iersel , Sjors Kole , Vincent Moulton , Leonie Nipius

When hybridization or other forms of lateral gene transfer have occurred, evolutionary relationships of species are better represented by phylogenetic networks than by trees. While inference of such networks remains challenging, several…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-15 Elizabeth S. Allman , Hector Baños , Marina Garrote-Lopez , John A. Rhodes

Phylogenetic networks have gained prominence over the years due to their ability to represent complex non-treelike evolutionary events such as recombination or hybridization. Popular combinatorial objects used to construct them are triplet…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-19 P. Gambette , K. T. Huber , S. Kelk

Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees allowing for the representation of non-treelike evolutionary events such as hybridization. Typically, such networks have been analyzed based on their `level', i.e. based on…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-11 Mareike Fischer , Michelle Galla , Lina Herbst , Yangjing Long , Kristina Wicke

An important problem in phylogenetics is the construction of phylogenetic trees. One way to approach this problem, known as the supertree method, involves inferring a phylogenetic tree with leaves consisting of a set $X$ of species from a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-21 Katharine T. Huber , Vincent Moulton , Charles Semple , Taoyang Wu

Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of evolutionary trees that are used by biologists to represent the evolution of organisms which have undergone reticulate evolution. Essentially, a phylogenetic network is a directed acyclic graph…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-01 Leo van Iersel , Vincent Moulton , Eveline de Swart , Taoyang Wu

The Tree of Life is the graphical structure that represents the evolutionary process from single-cell organisms at the origin of life to the vast biodiversity we see today. Reconstructing this tree from genomic sequences is challenging due…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-06 Claudia Solis-Lemus , Arrigo Coen , Cecile Ane

Interest in the inference of evolutionary networks relating species or populations has grown with the increasing recognition of the importance of hybridization, gene flow and admixture, and the availability of large-scale genomic data.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-23 John A. Rhodes , Hector Banos , Jingcheng Xu , Cécile Ané

Rooted phylogenetic networks are used to describe evolutionary histories that contain non-treelike evolutionary events such as hybridization and horizontal gene transfer. In some cases, such histories can be described by a phylogenetic…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-03 Laura Jetten , Leo van Iersel

Recently it was shown that a certain class of phylogenetic networks, called level-$2$ networks, cannot be reconstructed from their associated distance matrices. In this paper, we show that they can be reconstructed from their induced…

A rooted phylogenetic network is a directed acyclic graph with a single root, whose sinks correspond to a set of species. As such networks are useful for representing the evolution of species that have undergone reticulate evolution, there…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-28 Vincent Moulton , Taoyang Wu

Rooted phylogenetic networks are used by biologists to infer and represent complex evolutionary relationships between species that cannot be accurately explained by a phylogenetic tree. Tree-child networks are a particular class of rooted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Janosch Döcker , Simone Linz

Rooted phylogenetic networks provide a way to describe species' relationships when evolution departs from the simple model of a tree. However, networks inferred from genomic data can be highly tangled, making it difficult to discern the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-31 Andrew Francis , Daniel H. Huson , Mike Steel

This paper studies the enumeration of seven subclasses of level-$2$ phylogenetic networks under various planarity and structural constraints, including terminal planar, tree-child, and galled networks. We derive their exponential generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Hexuan Liu , Bing-Ze Lu , Taoyang Wu , Guan-Ru Yu

Phylogenetic networks are mathematical structures for modeling and visualization of reticulation processes in the study of evolution. Galled networks, reticulation visible networks, nearly-stable networks and stable-child networks are the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-02 Andreas D. M. Gunawan , Louxin Zhang

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

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 networks generalize phylogenetic trees by representing reticulate evolution. Tree-based networks and their support trees have been extensively studied, but not all networks are tree-based. To measure how far such networks are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-27 Takatora Suzuki

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

Phylogenetic networks are rooted acyclic directed graphs in which the leaves are identified with members of a set X of species. The cluster of a vertex is the set of leaves that are descendants of the vertex. A network is "distinct-cluster"…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Stephen J. Willson