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The evolution of molecular and phenotypic traits is commonly modelled using Markov processes along a phylogeny. This phylogeny can be a tree, or a network if it includes reticulations, representing events such as hybridization or admixture.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-28 Benjamin Teo , Paul Bastide , Cécile Ané

In 1989 Erd\H{o}s and Sz\'ekely showed that there is a bijection between (i) the set of rooted trees with $n+1$ vertices whose leaves are bijectively labeled with the elements of $[\ell]=\{1,2,\dots,\ell\}$ for some $\ell \leq n$, and (ii)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Vincent Moulton , Andreas Spillner

Starting from the local structures to study hierarchical trees is a common research method. However, the cumbersome analysis and description make the naive method challenging to adapt to the increasingly complex hierarchical tree problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Jianping Cai , Ximeng Liu , Jiayin Li , Shuangyue Zhang

This article presents a unified bijective scheme between planar maps and blossoming trees, where a blossoming tree is defined as a spanning tree of the map decorated with some dangling half-edges that enable to reconstruct its faces. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-27 Marie Albenque , Dominique Poulalhon

Bayesian inference is now a leading technique for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from aligned sequence data. In this short note, we formally show that the maximum posterior tree topology provides a statistically consistent estimate of a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-12 Mike Steel

Determining the interaction partners among protein/domain families poses hard computational problems, in particular in the presence of paralogous proteins. Available approaches aim to identify interaction partners among protein/domain…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-14 Iman Hajirasouliha , Alexander Schönhuth , David Juan , Alfonso Valencia , S. Cenk Sahinalp

Recently, so-called treebased phylogenetic networks have gained considerable interest in the literature, where a treebased network is a network that can be constructed from a phylogenetic tree, called the base tree, by adding additional…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-28 Mareike Fischer , Michelle Galla , Lina Herbst , Yangjing Long , Kristina Wicke

We propose a novel method for the inference of phylogenetic trees that utilises point configurations on hyperbolic space as its optimisation landscape. Each taxon corresponds to a point of the point configuration, while the evolutionary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Benjamin Wilson

The parameters of many classes of birth-death processes cannot be inferred uniquely from phylogenetic trees: infinitely many parameter combinations yield the same distribution of phylogenetic trees. Here, we show that parameter…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-21 Tobias Dieselhorst , Tanja Stadler

In this article we study the treewidth of the \emph{display graph}, an auxiliary graph structure obtained from the fusion of phylogenetic (i.e., evolutionary) trees at their leaves. Earlier work has shown that the treewidth of the display…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Steven Kelk , Georgios Stamoulis , Taoyang Wu

Phylogenetic networks are generalizations of trees that allow for the modeling of non-tree like evolutionary processes. Split networks give a useful way to construct networks with intuitive distance structures induced from the associated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Bryson Kagy , Seth Sullivant

In this paper, we present a flexible and probabilistic framework for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar fields using merge trees and partial optimal transport. Merge trees are topological descriptors that record the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mingzhe Li , Xinyuan Yan , Lin Yan , Tom Needham , Bei Wang

Fitch graphs $G=(X,E)$ are di-graphs that are explained by $\{\otimes,1\}$-edge-labeled rooted trees with leaf set $X$: there is an arc $xy\in E$ if and only if the unique path in $T$ that connects the least common ancestor…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Marc Hellmuth

Null models of binary phylogenetic trees are useful for testing hypotheses on real world phylogenies. In this paper we consider phylogenies as binary trees without edge lengths together with a sampling measure and encode them as algebraic…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Josué Nussbaumer , Anita Winter

Evolutionary relationships between species are represented by phylogenetic trees, but these relationships are subject to uncertainty due to the random nature of evolution. A geometry for the space of phylogenetic trees is necessary in order…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Jonas Lueg , Maryam K. Garba , Tom M. W. Nye , Stephan F. Huckemann

Phylogenetic networks are leaf-labelled directed acyclic graphs that are used to describe non-treelike evolutionary histories and are thus a generalization of phylogenetic trees. The hybridization number of a phylogenetic network is the sum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Leo van Iersel , Steven Kelk , Nela Lekić , Chris Whidden , Norbert Zeh

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 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

An important and well-studied problem in phylogenetics is to compute a \emph{consensus tree} so as to summarize the common features within a collection of rooted phylogenetic trees, all whose leaf-sets are bijectively labeled by the same…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-22 Katharina T. Huber , Vincent Moulton , Andreas Spillner

Phylogenetic trees describe the relationships between species in the evolutionary process, and provide information about the rates of diversification. To understand the mechanisms behind macroevolution, we consider a class of multitype…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-07 Mingqi He , Sophie Hautphenne , Yao-ban Chan