On the computational complexity of the reticulate cophylogeny reconstruction problem

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-117

  Libeskind Hadas, Ran ^a   Charleston, Michael A ^b  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Computational complexity; Cophylogeny; NP completeness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COEVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149216660     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2008.0084     Document Type: Article

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