Graph triangulations and the compatibility of unrooted phylogenetic trees
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چکیده
We characterize the compatibility of a collection of unrooted phylogenetic trees as a question of determining whether a graph derived from these trees — the display graph — has a specific kind of triangulation, which we call legal. Our result is a counterpart to the well known triangulation-based characterization of the compatibility of undirected multi-state characters.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Appl. Math. Lett.
دوره 24 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011