title: Determining phylogenetic networks from inter-taxa distances.
abstract: We consider the problem of determining the topological structure of a phylogenetic network given only information about the path-length distances between taxa. In particular, one of the main results of the paper shows that binary tree-child networks are essentially determined by such information.
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering Computer Sciences, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
authors.forename: Magnus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bordewich
authors.affiliation: Biomathematics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. charles.semple@canterbury.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Semple
mesh_terms: D002965:Classification / Q000379:methods*; D008954:Models, Biological; D010802:Phylogeny
keywords: Distance methods; Phylogenetic network; Temporal network; Tree-child network