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Orthophyletic? was Re: Tree numbers

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at MINDSPRING.COM
Fri May 30 15:03:01 CDT 2003


Gary Rosenberg <rosenberg at ACNATSCI.ORG> wrote:
>Also, the number of monophyletic groups in a given dichotomous tree of n =
>taxa is 2n-1 and the number of orthophyletic groups is (n-1)(n-2).

I'd never encountered the term "orthophyletic" before.  What does it mean?  Non-polyphyletic (i.e. either monophyletic or paraphyletic)?

Stephen Carlson




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