Tripartitions do not always discriminate phylogenetic networks

Details Tripartitions do not always discriminate phylogenetic networks Tripartitions do not always discriminate phylogenetic networks

2007-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/0707.2376v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

26 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that allow for the representation of non-treelike evolutionary events, like recombination, hybridization, or lateral gene transfer. In a recent series of papers devoted to the study of reconstructibility of phylogenetic networks, Moret, Nakhleh, Warnow and collaborators introduced the so-called {tripartition metric for phylogenetic networks. In this paper we show that, in fact, this tripartition metric does not satisfy the separation axiom of distances (zero distance means isomorphism, or, in a more relaxed version, zero distance means indistinguishability in some specific sense) in any of the subclasses of phylogenetic networks where it is claimed to do so. We also present a subclass of phylogenetic networks whose members can be singled out by means of their sets of tripartitions (or even clusters), and hence where the latter can be used to define a meaningful metric.

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