title: Comparison of galled trees.
abstract: Galled trees, directed acyclic graphs that model evolutionary histories with isolated hybridization events, have become very popular due to both their biological significance and the existence of polynomial-time algorithms for their reconstruction. In this paper, we establish to which extent several distance measures for the comparison of evolutionary networks are metrics for galled trees, and hence, when they can be safely used to evaluate galled tree reconstruction methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain. gabriel.cardona@uib.es
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cardona
authors.forename: Mercè
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Llabrés
authors.forename: Francesc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rosselló
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Valiente
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny