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Locating a Tree in a Phylogenetic Network in Quadratic Time

Data Structures and Algorithms 2022-08-29 v1 Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Populations and Evolution

Abstract

A fundamental problem in the study of phylogenetic networks is to determine whether or not a given phylogenetic network contains a given phylogenetic tree. We develop a quadratic-time algorithm for this problem for binary nearly-stable phylogenetic networks. We also show that the number of reticulations in a reticulation visible or nearly stable phylogenetic network is bounded from above by a function linear in the number of taxa.

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@article{arxiv.1502.03379,
  title  = {Locating a Tree in a Phylogenetic Network in Quadratic Time},
  author = {Philippe Gambette and Andreas D. M. Gunawan and Anthony Labarre and Stéphane Vialette and Louxin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.03379},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted to RECOMB 2015

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