Building trees, hunting for trees, and comparing trees : theory and methods in phylogenetic analysis
Phylogenetics is the study and identification of evolutionary patterns and structures in nature; this thesis explores the mathematics of these structures. The basic objects of study are the leaf labelled tree and its substructures: quartets, splits, clusters and rooted triples, among others. We pres...
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University of Canterbury. Mathematics and Statistics
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7914 |