The cophylogeny reconstruction problem Is NP-complete

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-65

  Ovadia, Y ^a   Fielder, D ^a   Conow, C ^a   Libeskind Hadas, R ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

coevolution; computational complexity; cophylogeny; NP completeness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 78651294037     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2009.0240     Document Type: Article

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