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q-bio.PE2026
A height-based metaconcept for rooted tree balance and its implications for the index
Mareike Fischer, Tom Niklas Hamann, Kristina Wicke
Tree balance has received considerable attention in recent years, both in phylogenetics and in other areas. Numerous (im)balance indices have been proposed to quantify the (im)bala…
q-bio.PE2025
Metaconcepts of rooted tree balance
Mareike Fischer, Tom Niklas Hamann, Kristina Wicke
Measures of tree balance play an important role in many different research areas such as mathematical phylogenetics or theoretical computer science. Typically, tree balance is quan…
q-bio.PE2022
How far is my network from being edge-based? Proximity measures for edge-basedness of unrooted phylogenetic networks
Mareike Fischer, Tom Niklas Hamann, Kristina Wicke
Phylogenetic networks which are, as opposed to trees, suitable to describe processes like hybridization and horizontal gene transfer, play a substantial role in evolutionary resear…