Finding the maximum phylogenetic diversity score on phylogenetic networks

Due to human advancement in recent centuries, extinction rates of animals and plants around the earth have greatly risen. Conservation biology, the study of conservation of nature and earth’s biodiversity, aims to protect species from these increasing extinction rates.<br/>Phylogenetic diversity is a measure for biodiversity that can help in...

New FPT algorithms for finding the temporal hybridization number for sets of phylogenetic trees

We study the problem of finding a temporal hybridization network for a set of phylogenetic trees that minimizes the number of reticulations. First, we introduce an FPT algorithm for this problem on an arbitrary set of t binary trees with n leaves each with a running time of O(5^k*n*m) where k is the minimum temporal hybridization number. We also...