Maximizing Network Phylogenetic Diversity
Abstract: Network Phylogenetic Diversity (Network-PD) is a measure for the diversity of a set of species based on a rooted phylogenetic network (with branch lengths and inheritance probabilities on the reticulation edges) describing the evolution of those species. We consider the \textsc{Max-Network-PD} problem: given such a network, find~$k$ species with maximum Network-PD score. We show that this problem is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) for binary networks, by describing an optimal algorithm running in $\mathcal{O}(2r \log (k)(n+r))$~time, with~$n$ the total number of species in the network and~$r$ its reticulation number. Furthermore, we show that \textsc{Max-Network-PD} is NP-hard for level-1 networks, proving that, unless P$=$NP, the FPT approach cannot be extended by using the level as parameter instead of the reticulation number.
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