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q-bio.PE2012
On Patchworks and Hierarchies
Andreas Dress, Vincent Moulton, Mike Steel +1
Motivated by questions in biological classification, we discuss some elementary combinatorial and computational properties of certain set systems that generalize hierarchies, namel…
q-bio.PE2011★ 1 cited
`Lassoing' a phylogenetic tree I: Basic properties, shellings, and covers
A. W. M. Dress, K. T. Huber, M. Steel
A classical result, fundamental to evolutionary biology, states that an edge-weighted tree with leaf set , positive edge weights, and no vertices of degree 2 can be uniquely…
q-bio.PE2009
Species, Clusters and the 'Tree of Life': A graph-theoretic perspective
Andreas Dress, Vincent Moulton, Mike Steel +1
A hierarchical structure describing the inter-relationships of species has long been a fundamental concept in systematic biology, from Linnean classification through to the more re…