When a phylogenetic reconstruction does not result in one tree but in several, tree metrics
permit finding out how far the reconstructed trees are from one another. They also permit to …

The packaging of chromatin into the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell requires an extraordinary
degree of compaction and physical organization. In recent years, it has been shown that this …

Despite the rapid increase of size in phylogenomic data sets, a number of important nodes
on animal phylogeny are still unresolved. Among these, the rooting of the placental mammal …

Background Recent advances in automated assessment of basic vocabulary lists allow the
construction of linguistic phylogenies useful for tracing dynamics of human population …

As increasingly large molecular data sets are collected for phylogenomics, the conflicting
phylogenetic signal among gene trees poses challenges to resolve some difficult nodes of …

In modern neuroscience there is general agreement that brain function relies on networks
and that connectivity is therefore of paramount importance for brain function. Accordingly …

The Robinson–Foulds (RF) distance is the most popular method of evaluating the
dissimilarity between phylogenetic trees. In this paper, we define and explore in detail …

Abstract The Robinson-Foulds (RF) metric is arguably the most widely used measure of
phylogenetic tree similarity, despite its well-known shortcomings: For example, moving a …

The triplet and quartet distances are distance measures to compare two rooted and two
unrooted trees, respectively. The leaves of the two trees should have the same set of n …

In phylogenetics, the consensus problem consists in summarizing a set of phylogenetic trees
that all classify the same set of species into a single tree. Several definitions of consensus …