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Coronado, T. M.

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The Fair Proportion is a Shapley Value on phylogenetic networks too

The Fair Proportion of a species in a phylogenetic tree is a very simple measure that has been used to assess its value relative to the overall phylogenetic diversity represented by the tree. It has recently been proved by Fuchs and Jin to be equal to the Shapley Value of the coallitional game that sends each subset of species to its rooted Phylogenetic Diversity in the tree. We prove in this paper that this result extends to the natural translations of the Fair Proportion and the rooted Phylogenetic Diversity to rooted phylogenetic networks. We also generalize to rooted phylogenetic networks the expression for the Shapley Value of the unrooted Phylogenetic Diversity game on a phylogenetic tree established by Haake, Kashiwada and Su.

evolutionary biology

A balance index for phylogenetic trees based on quartets

We define a new balance index for phylogenetic trees based on the symmetry of the evolutive history of every quartet of leaves. This index makes sense for polytomic trees and it can be computed in time linear in the number of leaves. We compute its maximum and minimum values for arbitrary and bifurcating trees, and we provide exact formulas for its expected value and variance for bifurcating trees under Fords -model and Aldous {beta}-model and for arbitrary trees under the -{gamma}-model.

evolutionary biology