title: Supertree algorithms for ancestral divergence dates and nested taxa.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Supertree methods have been often identified as a possible approach to the reconstruction of the 'Tree of Life'. However, a limitation of such methods is that, typically, they use just leaf-labelled phylogenetic trees to infer the resulting supertree.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this paper, we describe several new supertree algorithms that extend the allowable information that can be used for phylogenetic inference. These algorithms have been recently implemented and we describe here two illustrative applications.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  These new algorithms are freely available for application at http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/build.pl.
authors.affiliation: Biomathematics Research Centre, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. c.semple@math.canterbury.ac.nz
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Semple
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hordijk
authors.forename: Roderic D M
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Page
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Steel
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005075:Biological Evolution; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010375:Pedigree; D010802:Phylogeny