Pattern identification in biogeography.
Identifying common patterns among area cladograms that arise in historical biogeography is an important tool for biogeographical inference. We develop the first rigorous formalization of these pattern-identification problems. We develop metrics to compare area cladograms. We define the maximum agreement area cladogram (MAAC) and we develop efficient algorithms for finding the MAAC of two area cladograms, while showing that it is NP-hard to find the MAAC of several binary area cladograms. We also describe a linear-time algorithm to identify if two area cladograms are identical.
Ganapathy
Ganeshkumar
G
Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. gsgk@cs.utexas.edu
Goodson
Barbara
B
Jansen
Robert
R
Le
Hai-Son
HS
Ramachandran
Vijaya
V
Warnow
Tandy
T
D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003710:Demography; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D010802:Phylogeny; D011157:Population Dynamics