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New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium 2001
December 3-6, 2001
Massey University
Palmerston North, New Zealand

Organizers
Dr I. Boglaev, Dr M. Carter, Dr J. Hudson, Dr C. Little (convenor), Ass. Prof R. McLachlan, Ass. Prof C. Lai

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Constructing phylogenetic trees from subtrees
by
Charles Semple
University of Canterbury
Coauthors: Mike Steel (University of Canterbury)

A central task in evolutionary biology, and other areas of classification, is to combine a collection of phylogenetic trees classifying overlapping sets of objects into a single parent tree that preserves all of the relationships that are shown in each of the input trees, and to recognize that either

In this talk, we outline and discuss this task and describe some recent results.

Date received: October 14, 2001

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