Supertree algorithms for ancestral divergence dates and nested taxa.
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.
Semple
Charles
C
Biomathematics Research Centre, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. c.semple@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Daniel
Philip
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Hordijk
Wim
W
Page
Roderic D M
RD
Steel
Mike
M
D000465:Algorithms; D005075:Biological Evolution; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010375:Pedigree; D010802:Phylogeny