Combinatorics of k-Interval Cospeciation for Cophylogeny

Abstract

We show that the cophylogenetic distance, k-interval cospeciation, is distinct from other metrics and accounts for global congruence between locally incongruent trees. The growth of the neighborhood of trees which satisfy the largest possible k-interval cospeciation with a given tree indicates that k-interval cospeciation is useful for analyzing simulated data.

8 pages, 3 figures

References in corpus (1)

• First steps toward the geometry of cophylogeny