Combinatorial properties of phylogenetic diversity indices for rooted and unrooted trees
Wicke, Kristina ; Steel, Mike
arXiv, Tome 2019 (2019) no. 0, / Harvested from
Phylogenetic diversity indices provide a formal way to apportion 'evolutionary heritage' across species. Two natural diversity indices are Fair Proportion (FP) and Equal Splits (ES). FP is also called 'evolutionary distinctiveness' and, for rooted trees, is identical to the Shapley Value (SV), which arises from cooperative game theory. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which FP and ES can differ, characterise tree shapes on which the indices are identical, and provide a new, shorter proof that FP and SV are identical on rooted trees. We also define and investigate analogues of these indices on unrooted trees (where SV was originally defined), including an index that is closely related to the Pauplin representation of phylogenetic diversity.
Publié le : 2019-02-06
Classification:  Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution,  Mathematics - Combinatorics
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     title = {Combinatorial properties of phylogenetic diversity indices for rooted
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     journal = {arXiv},
     volume = {2019},
     number = {0},
     year = {2019},
     language = {en},
     url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1902.02463}
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Wicke, Kristina; Steel, Mike. Combinatorial properties of phylogenetic diversity indices for rooted
  and unrooted trees. arXiv, Tome 2019 (2019) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1902.02463/