2025/03/19 by Ana Serra Silva, Mark Wilkinson · 1 voice
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Genome Rearrangement Algorithms #Banana Cultivation and Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.1101/2025.03.18.641816
openalex publication_date 2025/03/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
Abstract Post-processing of sets of inferred phylogenetic trees often focuses on the canonical case of consensus of (multi)sets of phylogenetic trees on the same leaf set. However, with growing numbers of phylogenomic studies resorting to summary and/or supertree methods to obtain a phylogeny, the amount of (multi)sets of trees with non-identical leaf sets also increases. In an attempt identify trees with non-identical leaf sets that are topologically similar, we define a new sequential subsetting approach, “clumps of trees”, based on the distance between any tree in a set and the set’s supertree. While clumps were developed with trees with non-identical leaf sets in mind, they can be applied to (multi)sets of trees with identical taxonomic sampling. Unlike islands of trees, clumps will not always be mutually exclusive, thus making them more similar to families of trees.