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ReviewJournal of mathematical biology2022

Classes of explicit phylogenetic networks and their biological and mathematical significance.

Sungsik Kong, Joan Carles Pons, Laura Kubatko, Kristina Wicke

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Phylogenetic Network Models as Graphical Models.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2026
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  3. Counting Spinal Phylogenetic Networks.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2026
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  4. Counting Rankings of Tree-Child Networks.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2026
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  5. Characterizing semi-directed phylogenetic networks and their multi-rootable variants.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2025
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  7. Orthology and near-cographs in the context of phylogenetic networks.Algorithms for molecular biology : AMB · 2025
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  9. Spaces of ranked tree-child networks.Journal of mathematical biology · 2025
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  11. Phylogenetic networks empower biodiversity research.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  13. Mathematically tractable models of random phylogenetic networks: an overview of some recent developments.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  14. Leveraging graphical model techniques to study evolution on phylogenetic networks.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  19. Asymmetric Cluster-Based Measures for Comparative Phylogenetics.Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Sungsik Kong *Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Joan Carles Pons *Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, 07122, Spain.
Laura KubatkoDepartment of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Kristina WickeDepartment of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. wicke.6@osu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4275-5546

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The evolutionary relationships among organisms have traditionally been represented using rooted phylogenetic trees. However, due to reticulate processes such as hybridization or lateral gene transfer, evolution cannot always be adequately represented by a phylogenetic tree, and rooted phylogenetic networks that describe such complex processes have been introduced as a generalization of rooted phylogenetic trees. In fact, estimating rooted phylogenetic networks from genomic sequence data and analyzing their structural properties is one of the most important tasks in contemporary phylogenetics. Over the last two decades, several subclasses of rooted phylogenetic networks (characterized by certain structural constraints) have been introduced in the literature, either to model specific biological phenomena or to enable tractable mathematical and computational analyses. In the present manuscript, we provide a thorough review of these network classes, as well as provide a biological interpretation of the structural constraints underlying these networks where possible. In addition, we discuss how imposing structural constraints on the network topology can be used to address the scalability and identifiability challenges faced in the estimation of phylogenetic networks from empirical data.

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Gene Transfer, HorizontalHybridization, GeneticAlgorithmsBiological EvolutionModels, GeneticPhylogenyHybridizationIntrogressionLateral gene transferPhylogenetic networkPhylogenetic tree

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