Cophenetic metrics for phylogenetic trees, after Sokal and Rohlf
Cophenetic metrics for phylogenetic trees, after Sokal and Rohlf
Abstract Background Phylogenetic tree comparison metrics are an important tool in the study of evolution, and hence the definition of such metrics is an interesting problem in phylogenetics. In a paper in Taxon fifty years ago, Sokal and Rohlf proposed to measure quantitatively the difference between a pair of phylogenetic …