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A fundamental problem in biological classiffication is the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees for a set X of species from a collection of either subtrees or qualitative characters. This task is equivalent to tree reconstruction from a set of partial X-splits (bipartitions of subsets of X). In this paper, we define and analyse a “closure” operation for partial X-splits that was informally proposed by Meacham [5]. In particular, we establish a sufficient condition for such an operation to reconstruct a tree when there is essentially only one tree that displays the partial X-splits. This result exploits a recent combinatorial result from [2].
This work was supported by the New Zealand Marsden Fund (UOC-MIS-003).
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Semple, C., Steel, M. (2001). Tree Reconstruction via a Closure Operation on Partial Splits. In: Gascuel, O., Sagot, MF. (eds) Computational Biology. JOBIM 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2066. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45727-5_11
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