Computing the hybridization number of two phylogenetic trees is fixed-parameter tractable

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 458-466

  Bordewich, Magnus ^a   Semple, Charles ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agreement forest; Hybridization network; Reticulate evolution; Rooted phylogenetic tree; Subtree prune and regraft

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HYBRIDIZATION NETWORK; RETICULATE EVOLUTION; ROOTED PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SUBTREE PRUNE;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 34547977053     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2007.1019     Document Type: Article

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