Supertree algorithms for ancestral divergence dates and nested taxa

  • Authors:

  • Charles Semple;Philip Daniel;Wim Hordijk;Roderic D.M. Page;Mike Steel

  • Affiliations:

  • Biomathematics Research Centre, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;Biomathematics Research Centre, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;Biomathematics Research Centre, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;DEEB, IBLS, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QP, UK;Biomathematics Research Centre, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Motivation: Supertree methods have been often identified as a possible approach to the reconstruction of the 'Tree of Life'. However, a limitation of such methods is that, typically, they use just leaf-labelled phylogenetic trees to infer the resulting supertree. Results: In this paper, we describe several new supertree algorithms that extend the allowable information that can be used for phylogenetic inference. These algorithms have been recently implemented and we describe here two illustrative applications. Availability: These new algorithms are freely available for application at http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/build.pl