Sound Colless-like balance indices for multifurcating trees.

The Colless index is one of the most popular and natural balance indices for bifurcating phylogenetic trees, but it makes no sense for multifurcating trees. In this paper we propose a family of Colless-like balance indices [Formula: see text] that generalize the Colless index to multifurcating phylo...

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Main Authors: Arnau Mir, Lucía Rotger, Francesc Rosselló
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6155497?pdf=render