Beschreibung:
Andreas Dress is a Professor Emeritus in the Mathematics Department at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
The first book to systematically introduce the emerging area of phylogenetic combinatorics.
1. Preliminaries; 2. Encoding X-trees; 3. Consistency of X-tree encodings; 4. From split systems to networks; 5. From metrics to networks; 6. From quartet and tree systems to trees; 7. From metrics to split systems and back; 8. Maps to and from quartet systems; 9. Rooted trees and the Farris transform; 10. On measuring and removing inconsistencies.