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  • Title: Reconstruction of certain phylogenetic networks from their tree-average distances.
    Author: Willson SJ.
    Journal: Bull Math Biol; 2013 Oct; 75(10):1840-78. PubMed ID: 23864219.
    Abstract:
    Trees are commonly utilized to describe the evolutionary history of a collection of biological species, in which case the trees are called phylogenetic trees. Often these are reconstructed from data by making use of distances between extant species corresponding to the leaves of the tree. Because of increased recognition of the possibility of hybridization events, more attention is being given to the use of phylogenetic networks that are not necessarily trees. This paper describes the reconstruction of certain such networks from the tree-average distances between the leaves. For a certain class of phylogenetic networks, a polynomial-time method is presented to reconstruct the network from the tree-average distances. The method is proved to work if there is a single reticulation cycle.
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