Orthophyletic? was Re: Tree numbers
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at MINDSPRING.COM
Fri May 30 15:03:01 CDT 2003
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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