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Ran Libeskind-Hadas and
Michael A. Charleston. On the Computational Complexity of the Reticulate Cophylogeny Reconstruction Problem. In JCB, Vol. 16(1):105-117, 2009. Keywords: cophylogeny, heuristic, NP complete, parsimony, phylogenetic network, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cmb.2008.0084.
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"The cophylogeny reconstruction problem is that of finding minimal cost explanations of differences between evolutionary histories of ecologically linked groups of biological organisms. We present a proof that shows that the general problem of reconciling evolutionary histories is NP-complete and provide a sharp boundary where this intractability begins. We also show that a related problem, that of finding Pareto optimal solutions, is NP-hard. As a byproduct of our results, we give a framework by which meta-heuristics can be applied to find good solutions to this problem. © Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2009."
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Roderic D.M. Page and
Michael A. Charleston. Trees within trees: phylogeny and historical associations. In TEE, Vol. 13(9):356-359, 1998. Keywords: duplication, explicit network, from rooted trees, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, survey. Note: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/papers/tree.pdf.
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