Bounding the SNPR distance between two tree-child networks using generalised agreement forests

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Auteurs principaux: Kelk, Steven, Linz, Simone, Semple, Charles
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author Kelk, Steven
Linz, Simone
Semple, Charles
author_facet Kelk, Steven
Linz, Simone
Semple, Charles
contents Agreement forests continue to play a central role in the comparison of phylogenetic trees since their introduction more than 25 years ago. More specifically, they are used to characterise several distances that are based on tree rearrangement operations and related quantifiers of dissimilarity between phylogenetic trees. In addition, the concept of agreement forests continues to underlie most advancements in the development of algorithms that exactly compute the aforementioned measures. In this paper, we introduce agreement digraphs, a concept that generalises agreement forests for two phylogenetic trees to two phylogenetic networks. Analogous to the way in which agreement forests compute the subtree prune and regraft distance between two phylogenetic trees but inherently more complex, we then use agreement digraphs to bound the subnet prune and regraft distance between two tree-child networks from above and below and show that our bounds are tight.
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spellingShingle Bounding the SNPR distance between two tree-child networks using generalised agreement forests
Kelk, Steven
Linz, Simone
Semple, Charles
Combinatorics
Populations and Evolution
Agreement forests continue to play a central role in the comparison of phylogenetic trees since their introduction more than 25 years ago. More specifically, they are used to characterise several distances that are based on tree rearrangement operations and related quantifiers of dissimilarity between phylogenetic trees. In addition, the concept of agreement forests continues to underlie most advancements in the development of algorithms that exactly compute the aforementioned measures. In this paper, we introduce agreement digraphs, a concept that generalises agreement forests for two phylogenetic trees to two phylogenetic networks. Analogous to the way in which agreement forests compute the subtree prune and regraft distance between two phylogenetic trees but inherently more complex, we then use agreement digraphs to bound the subnet prune and regraft distance between two tree-child networks from above and below and show that our bounds are tight.
title Bounding the SNPR distance between two tree-child networks using generalised agreement forests
topic Combinatorics
Populations and Evolution
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09076