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SUMMARY:Trees as representations of evolutionary information worth keeping
  - Mooers\, A (Simon Fraser University)
DTSTART:20110623T080000Z
DTEND:20110623T090000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Weighted trees can be viewed as depictions of informational re
 dundancy among tips. There is a rich literature in conservation biology on
  how this view can be used to maximize this information in triage situatio
 ns or predict the future loss of such evolutionary information. Early view
 s that redundancy is expected to be high is supported neither by theory on
  tree shapes nor by surveys of phylogenies. This means that work on maximi
 zation is relevant and timely. However\, much triage is done within\, rath
 er than between\, independent lineages\; more theoretical work is needed t
 o translate relevant metrics to\, e.g.\, haplotype networks on landscapes.
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LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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