During the past few decades, phylogenetic analysis has become an important tool throughout biology for comparing information about genes, individuals, populations, and species. This information is usually in the form of morphological, behavioral or molecular data, and phylogenetic analysis is used to estimate the historical relationships among the genes or species, and to depict these relations...

UNLABELLED Evolutionary relationships are frequently described by phylogenetic trees, but a central barrier in many fields is the difficulty of interpreting data containing conflicting phylogenetic signals. We present a metric-based method for comparing trees which extracts distinct alternative evolutionary relationships embedded in data. We demonstrate detection and resolution of phylogenetic ...