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Oxford University Press (OUP), Systematic Biology, 2(49), p. 363-368

DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/49.2.363

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Simple but Fundamental Limitations on Supertree and Consensus Tree Methods

Journal article published in 2000 by Mike Steel, Andreas W. M. Dress, Sebastian Böcker ORCID
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Abstract

el,1992).The search for "good" new algorithms to amalgamate trees is topical, particularly for thesupertree problem because existing methods appear to have certain limitations, and to besomewhat ad-hoc: a common supertree method is to re-code trees by characters and applymaximum parsimony reconstruction; see for example, Baum (1992), Ragan (1992), Purvis(1995b) and Sanderson et al. (1998).The purpose of this note is to point out that there exist inherent limitations to what any...