Contents

• 4 The Mathematical Basis of Molecular Phylogenetics
  • 4.1 Sequences and the Concept of Information
  • 4.2 A Formal Universe for Sequentially Encoded Information
  • 4.3 Good Bookkeeping of Sequences
  • 4.4 Mutation Trees and Family Trees
  • 4.5 Sequence Similarity
  • 4.6 Linkage Algorithms
  • 4.7 Additive Clustering Procedures
  • 4.8 Trees versus Cluster Systems
  • 4.9 Split Decomposition
  • 4.10 Some Applications of Split Decomposition
• Appendices
  • 4.11 What is Information Theory?
  • 4.12 The Hamming + Gap Metric
  • 4.13 A Metric, Satisfying the Ultrametric Inequality
  • 4.14 The Four-Point Condition
  • 4.15 The Additive Linkage Algorithm, Applied to A Metric Satisfying the Four-Point Condition
• References
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