Modern biology provides a wealth of interesting mathematical challenges in the modeling and reconstruction of evolution. A new eprint explores the theoretical prospects for defining a phylogenetic tree structure, despite complications like lateral gene transfer, hybdridization and the difference between gene and species trees:
A. Dress, et al. Species, Clusters and the ‘Tree of Life’: A graph-theoretic perspective. eprint: 0908.2885
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